Abstract
The present article is centered in the identification and students’ characterization with High Intellectual Capacities in students of the grades X and XI of Institutions Educational officials of Santa Marta’s District. The selection of the sample was made assisting to postulation approaches on the part of educational and students of the mentioned grades and psychological evaluation, of which 22 students were selected distributed this way: 8 with High Intellectual Abilities and 14 with Academic Talents. The results hurtled by this study allowed to approach to a characterization and the achievement of a bigger understanding of the psychological particularities of these youths what facilitates the construction of in agreement intervention strategies with the detected characteristics.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.