BISD GATE Gifted and Talented Education Identification

Bright vs. Gifted How do I know?

Bright Children... ■ Enjoy learning ■ Know the answers ■ Good memory ■ Absorb information ■ Top of group-test well

Gifted Children... ■ Curious ■ Ask questions ■ Intuitive, good guesser ■ Manipulates information ■ Beyond the group-tests well

Three-Ring Conception of Giftedness Dr. Joseph Renzulli, 1978

Texas State Plan for the Education of Gifted and Talented Students

Collect Data from Multiple Sources Qualitative ■Parent Questionnaire ■Scales for Identifying Gifted Students ■Student Products Quantitative ■Cognitive Abilities Test ■Scantron Performance Series ■Torrance Test of Creative Thinking

Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) ■ ability test ■ abstract, critical, and logical reasoning skills ■ verbal, quantitative, nonverbal ■ age percentiles

Scantron Performance Series (SPS) ■ achievement test ■ measures the extent of knowledge about specific subject areas ■ 2 tests: reading and mathematics ■ National Percentile Ranks

Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT) ■ creativity test ■ measures fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration ■ National Percentile Rankings

Scales for Identifying Gifted Students (SIGS) ■ used by classroom teachers ■ 6 areas

Parent Questionnaire ■ completed by parents ■ scale of 1-5 ■ specific examples

Specific Item Example Question #15 “Enjoys humor”

Specific Item Example Question #19 “Can spend a long time doing one thing”

Student Products ■ high level activities ■ advanced behaviors

Identification and Placement Process 1.Referral 2. Screening 3. Placement Decisions GATE Committee

Websites for Gifted Resources

Questions?