Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Profiles of gifted students through the eyes of their teachers: identifying students at risk for underachievement
Introduction Not all gifted students realize their full potential and many gifted students are underachieving. To examine whether gifted primary school students at risk for underachievement can be identified by their teachers early on, the current study aimed to examine (1) whether different profiles can be distinguished among gifted students based on teacher ratings of observable characteristics (classroom behavior, task commitment, educational performance, teacherchild relationship quality, and peer relations), ( …