Fifty-one children who were enrolled in the gifted curriculum in the public schools in a midwest community of 27,000 were tested with the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, Fourth Edition and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test—Revised. Correlations were calculated between the Peabody and the four area scores and the composite score of the Stanford-Binet; the correlations ranged from.30 to.57, indicating that the Peabody may be of value in screening students being considered for gifted placement.
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