Originally Posted by aeh
There is a nice review of the literature in the introduction to this journal article (on Australian students), including research, largely from the '70s, that found teachers to be about 10-50% accurate (depending on the way accuracy was measured) at ID'ing GT children, while parents were about 50-96% accurate.

Note that the research is mostly on preschool and kindergarten-age students.

http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ750772.pdf



This is the key article generally cited:

https://www.researchgate.net/public...d_children_as_a_function_of_school_level


Well, that definitely supports sannes wording rather than mine.
Now I'm trying to think where I read what I read...this link from hoagies might be it, or not...
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/identification.htm
Parents are the best source of information about their children's abilities by John Worthington
"Parents are a highly accurate and reliable source of information about their children's intelligence and abilities with most able to predict their child's IQ to within a few points, according to a University of Queensland PhD study..." Also see A Longitudinal Study of Early Literacy Development and the Changing Perceptions of Parents and Teachers

Last edited by Tigerle; 03/22/17 09:49 AM.