Can someone throw light on gifted vs bright and how these tests are able to make out the difference?
Agree with what others have shared, and I'll just add that some have used these words to create a distinction between:
gifted as native intelligence or innate ability (a way of thinking and being), discernible by IQ tests
and
bright as what has been learned through opportunity and academics, discernible by achievement tests.
The two are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
The familiar hand-out is found several places online. Here's
one.
In a Psychology Today magazine
article dated January 2012, Christopher Taibbi discusses Bright/Gifted.
