Research Scholar
Kuen-Shouh Wu, Department of Special Education
Diane Sainato, Faculty advisor
Biography
Kuen-Shouh Wu graduated from The Ohio State University in 1996. His major was gifted education. Right now he serves in the Department of Special Education, National University of Tainan, Taiwan. One of his serving duties outside of the university was to screen gifted and talented students for the classes of gifted and talented. His research project these two years is to develop an aptitude test for visual arts. This test will include three parts: Aptitude of visual art, Intelligence of visual art, and Personality of visual art.
About the Research
Few aptitude tests for visual art were found in a literature review. Is it difficult to define what “Aptitude” is for visual art? Or is it difficult to develop the aptitude test? To develop the aptitude test for talent in visual art is important.
Gifted and Talented classes include classes for academics, classes for visual art, and classes for performing art in Taiwan. How to screen the gifted and talented students to attend these classes is both important and hard work every year. Parents and prospective candidates for these classes care about the screening.
The purpose of this research is to develop aptitude tests for screening talented students in visual arts. The test could include three parts. Part A is a test of aptitude in visual art. Part B is a test of intelligence in visual art. Part C is a scale of personality in visual art.
The tests will be developed in two versions. One version is for screening for talented students in third grade. The other one is for screening for talented students in seventh grade. All tests will include the national norm.
