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Peer reviewedKarnes, Frances A.; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1986
Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) processing and achievement subtests were administered to 41 gifted students in grades four through six. Scores were compared to concurrent achievement measures from the California Achievement Test and other mental ability measures. Patterns of intercorrelations suggest that the K-ABC achievement…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Correlation
Peer reviewedKarnes, Frances A.; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1985
Intellectually gifted students (N=199) and students in the fine and performing arts (N=176) completed the High School Personality Questionnaire. Results indicated that gifted students obtained higher leadership potential scores, while talented students scored higher in creativity. Several significant differences were found in personality profiles…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Creativity, High School Students, High Schools
Peer reviewedKarnes, Frances A.; Brown, K. Eliot – Psychology in the Schools, 1980
The majority of the differences favor the males. The abilities measured by the coding subtest are present to a greater extent in females, regardless of the level of intelligence. Gifted boys manifest a higher level of verbal intelligence than do gifted girls. (Author)
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Gifted
Peer reviewedKarnes, Frances A.; Brown, K. Eliot – Psychology in the Schools, 1981
A study to develop a short form of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) for the intellectually gifted showed the Vocabulary and Block Design comprise the best two-subtest short form. The Similarities, Vocabulary, Block Design, and Object Assembly tetrad could be most useful in time and reliability. (Author)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Elementary Secondary Education, Intelligence Tests, Screening Tests
Peer reviewedKarnes, Frances A.; Wherry, Jeffrey N. – Psychology in the Schools, 1981
Wishes of students participating in a residential program for the gifted were collected and categorized. Males wished for material things more often than did females. With the exception of fourth graders, subjects made altruistic wishes more frequently than any other wish. (Author)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Altruism, Elementary School Students, Fantasy
Peer reviewedKarnes, Frances A.; Brown, K. Eliot – Psychology in the Schools, 1979
Compared the SIT with the WISC-R for a group of intellectually gifted students. Results indicated reduced correlations between the measures. (Author)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Comparative Analysis, Gifted, High Achievement
Peer reviewedKarnes, Frances A.; Oehler-Stinnett, Judy J. – Psychology in the Schools, 1986
Investigated the perceived stressfulness of life events by 53 gifted adolescents. Subjects rated items related to achievement, social status, and career aspirations as more stressful. Pressure to perform was rated as stressful, but actually being labeled gifted was rated as a relatively low stressful event. (Author/ABB)
Descriptors: Achievement, Adolescents, Gifted, Occupational Aspiration
