Tag Archives: Gifted Education

In order to help find and identify more gifted and potentially gifted students from underrepresented populations (CLD- Culturally and Linguistically Diverse students, Special Education students, Economically Disadvantaged students, etc.), we should also consider extenuating factors for the student and alternative data for the student. Extenuating Factors– Documented factors that can impact the student and hisContinue reading “Gifted Identification Series #9: Additional Data for Gifted Identification”

Remember back in Post #2 when I shared that one of the three things I remembered from my experience with gifted testing as an 11th grader was my parents’ response(s) on the questionnaire about their observations of me at home? What I remember was that other than my demographic information, they could only answer oneContinue reading “Gifted Identification Series #8: Parent Insights, Part 2”

So far, we’ve collected several data points for our referred student to consider his or her eligibility for an academic gifted program: nationally-normed and standardized ability and achievement tests, a gifted behavioral checklist, and gifted products or performance tasks such as writing samples, math problem-solving activities, etc. Another thing to consider collecting is parent input.Continue reading “Gifted Identification Series #7: The Importance of Parental Insights in Gifted Education”

I used a common memory trick to remember the difference between quantitative and qualitative research/data in my doctoral stats classes: QUANTITATIVE data used quantities (or numbers) to represent the data and QUALITATIVE data used qualities (or descriptions) to represent the data. What are some common types of qualitative data we could collect on students weContinue reading “Gifted Identification Series #6: Key Qualitative Data for Identifying Gifted Students”

Let’s take a little trip down memory lane, early winter of 1986. It was time to register for my classes for senior year. I had looked through the list of class offerings and chose a “Mentorship in Law” class for one of my electives.  This class would be perfect for me since I thought IContinue reading “Gifted Identification Series Post #2: Nature- The Pre-Historic Gifted IQ Cut-off Score”

Maybe you’re new to teaching gifted students. Maybe you’ve been teaching gifted students for a long time but are still unclear about how they are identified as gifted. Well, today’s post is for you! I’m kicking off a blog series about gifted identification to provide background knowledge to teachers of the gifted. I hope youContinue reading “Gifted Identification Series Post #1: Let’s Start at the Beginning…”