Successful intelligence and giftedness: an empirical study

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The aim of our research is to look into the diversity within gifted and talented students. This is important to better understand their complexity and thus offer a more appropriate educational progr ams. There are rather few empirical works which attempt to identify high abilities pr o- files (giftedness and talent) that actually exist beyond the theoretical level. The present work intends to single out the different patterns or profiles resulting from t he combination of the successful intelligence abilities (analytical, synthetic and practical), as defined by Stenberg. A total of 431 students from the Region of Murcia participated in this study. These students performed the Aurora Battery tasks (Chart, G rigorenko, & Sternberg, 2008), designed to measure the analytical, practical and creative intelligence. Analytically gifted students ( n =27), practically gifted ( n =33) and creatively gifted ( n = 34) were identified, taking as criteria scores equal to or high er than 120 IQ on each intelligence. Different Q - factor analyses were carried out for the three groups of students, in such a way that students were grouped according to their similarities. A total of 10 profiles showing how successful intelligence abiliti es are combined were obtained, something that has made possible to support the theory put forward by Sternberg (2000): the analytical, practical and creative talent profiles, as well as the resulting combinations, the analytical - practical, analytical - creative, practical - creative profiles, along with the consummate balance talent (high performance in the three types of intelligence).