Gifted Awareness in the Field of Visual Arts: Identification

Year 2016, Issue: 38, 152 - 167, 18.07.2016

Mehmet Ali Genç

Abstract

Because the first definitions for the gifted students having high level of skill, motivation and creativity focused on academic achievement, it was believed in that students who are academically successful would succeed in the field of art.

It caused problems to use the identification tools for the purpose of identifying the cognitive (academic) skills but also for identifying the gifted students in the field of visual arts. Identification of the gifted students in the field of art differs from the identification of cognitive skills due to different features and requires use of different identification tools.

Absence of any publication in Turkey about determination of gifted student in the field of visual arts makes this study important. In this study that was performed by using review method, it is discussed the identification of students required to take different educations in the field of art.

In this study, requirement of process observation as well as product assessment and consideration of multiple-criteria became prominent to determine the gifted students in the field of visual arts. It is also concluded that criterions such as art education notes, academic notes, slides or video examination data, informal tools, performance and portfolio examination, interview and observation must be considered during the period of candidacy.

Keywords

Görsel sanatlar, tanılama, sanat tanılama, yetenek tanılama, üstün yetenek

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