La detección de altas capacidades por parte de los progenitores, ¿Es exacta su apreciación?[Is the Detection of High Capacities by Parents, is your Appreciation Accurate?]

Abstract

Nomination of students with high abilities is the first step to be able to start the process, giving way later to a diagnosis of high capacities and the proposal of educational response adapted to their capacities and needs. In the present study, the criteria of the parents are compared by qualitative methodology to consider that their son or daughter has high intellectual abilities, comparing the answers given by those who believed that their children had high intelligence (IQ score equal to or less than 116). against which the intelligence score of their children is higher than an IQ of 130. The answers have been analyzed with the software ALCESTE, which analyzes the co-occurrences by proximity, using the statistic Ji square. In both groups, three classes are given, with different contents, both coinciding in the ease of solving problems or reasoning, but while in the first group they are based on aspects more related to the teaching environment (detection by teachers or boredom), those of the group with the highest IQ are based on knowledge of their higher score and previous attendance at programs for outstanding. We conclude that it is important to inform the parent population about contrasting indicators of existence of high capacities.