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Evaluating Artistically Gifted Children in Kindergarten

Along with heritage and the environment, education plays a significant role in identifying children's giftedness in visual arts. This paper is about evaluation the children in Croatian kindergartens who are gifted in visual arts. Identification the gifted children took place through observing children and evaluating their artworks. In the study, we were interested in the way in which educators in kindergartens identify artistic giftedness. The research showed that evaluation the gifted children represents a big challenge for educators. The study included 72 artworks by children of preschool age, whom educators found to be gifted in visual arts. The objective was to determine whether children identified by the educators as gifted were truly gifted. A thorough analysis of the artworks has shown that only in 10% of cases the educators correctly identified the gifted children.

gifted child ; kindergarten ; giftedness in visual arts ; educators

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