De l’adequation d’un test informatise en mathematiques pour eleves a haut potentiel presentant un flechissement scolaire a l’age de la puberte

Abstract

The cognitive, emotional and motivational inhibition of highly gifted underachievers has become recently a topic of interest for researchers in clinical psychology and psychopathology. In this context the authors wanted to test whether a computerized adaptive test in mathematics could help unblocking the achievement motivation of those students. The main features and principles of construction of the test are described. The results of an exploratory study which was undertaken with 123 students belonging to the second class of a secondary school, 35 of which were highly gifted, stretches the interest of the integration of a CAT into the global treatment procedures of the motivational deficit of highly gifted underachievers.