Author(s): Filiz KARADAÄ
Although the process of determining and identifying gifted individuals has been widely supported in education world, it also causes many discussions because of raising many differences of opinions. As the importance of determining increases, the questions what, why, when and where come to the fore for determining the gifted. Because of this reason, today in evaluating and determining process the rating scales, which are developed as an alternative scale and filled by teachers, is being frequently used in the world. These scales, which give teachers the opportunity of evaluating the observation and views about the students in a class context, give teachers the chance of evaluating a student according to a group. In this study detailed information about the aims and principles of determining gifted students, determining models, the progress of determining process in our country and alternative rating scales that contribute to this scanning process is given.
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