The Scale of Teacher Perception of Gifted Students: a Validity and Reliability Study

The purpose of this study was to develop the Scale of Teacher Perception of Gifted students. The validity and reliability studies were conducted. The sample consisted of 175 randomly selected primary school teachers. Within the scope of the scale validity studies, contextual validity was determined, based on specialist opinions, while the factor analysis was used for determining the structural validity. The scale included five sub-dimensions and 33 items. The sub-dimensions were as follows: willingness to learn, learning abilities, expression characteristics, personality characteristics, learning characteristics and mental characteristics. The overall Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient of the scale was 0.95. The validity and reliability studies yielded satisfactory results, so we can say that the Scale of Teacher Perception of Gifted Students can be used in the field of gifted education.