Correct Answer - Option 4 : all of these
Exceptional children are those who deviate from the normal population and need special education services to meet their needs. It includes children who are gifted, backward, creative, learning disabled, etc.
- A gifted child is essentially exceptional and displays consistently remarkable performance in physical or cognitive aspects and exhibits superiority in general intelligence levels.
- These children have divergent thinking and are very curious in nature that's why sometimes the classroom seems monotonous to them because they grab things fastly than of their age-peers.
Methods of identifying the gifted learners:
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Intelligence test:
- The most commonly used intelligence test is the intelligence quotient (I.Q.) test.
- The concept of I.Q. have been found useful in labeling the individual as gifted, normal, and subnormal.
- It was introduced by the German psychologist William Stern which was widely spread by Terman.
- It is can be calculated with the formula of IQ = (intelligence age/actual age) x100.
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Achievement test:
- It is designed to measure the acquired knowledge of the students or their proficiency in certain skills.
- It is capable of measuring the cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes of the educational process.
- It used to detect how much and what knowledge has the child received.
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Teacher-made test:
- These are prepared by the teacher. These are not governed rigidly by such processes.
- These are designed according to the content and objectives of a particular unit of study.
- The teacher can test intellectual curiosity, creativity, and imagination of gifted student through the test.
Hence, it could be concluded that all options are correct in the context.
