Proficiency Testing sheds light on this controversial subject, while Testing and Assessment covers IQ and other assessment
for gifted identification.
The administration
of gifted identification and gifted programming is confusing for parents and hurtful to gifted students.
And it's not just the «bad guys» - there are two copies of my Gifted 101: A Guide for First Time Visitors article out there, on a school website's
gifted identification page, and on a gifted teacher's FAQ page.
As long as we only look for children who excel in school as a criteria
for gifted identification, then the better - than reputation will endure, and continue to hurt many of our gifted children who may not or can not excel in school.
And let's throw one other area of giftedness into this big bowl of educational mismanagement
of gifted identification and gifted programs: twice - exceptional or 2E gifted students.
Gifted education and
gifted identification is definitely poorly implemented in so many ways by schools.
«Similar steps could be taken to formalize the processes for
gifted identification,» the researchers wrote.
She co-chairs with Dan Peters the National Association for Gifted Children's Assessments of Giftedness Special Interest Group (SIG), formerly the Assessment Task Force, which researched the WISC - IV and suggested best practices for its use for
gifted identification.
Associates are trained in an array of specialties, including learning disabilities, executive function disorders, depression, anxiety,
gifted identification, and family counseling.
Yet students who barely met the 5th grade cutoff criteria to enter the gifted programs fared no better academically in 7th grade, after a year and a half in the program, than did similarly high - potential students who just missed qualifying for
gifted identification.