Appropriate uses of intelligence tests with gifted children

Abstract

This article suggests that intelligence testing effectively serves the purpose for which it was created and that it can yield a wealth of valuable information about a gifted child. Many of the criticisms of intelligence testing are based on unrealistic expectations that the tests can accomplish what they were never intended to do. The authors suggest that there are certainly characteristics other than intelligence that need to be nurtured and that researchers and educators will need to develop standardized measures of those abilities and programs to match those talents. Acknowledging that other measures are needed does not invalidate those measures currently used.