Category: assessments
-
Unlocking Universal Testing: Broad Criteria for Implementation
Questions continue circulating among gifted program teachers and administrators regarding the most accurate, fair, and cost-effective system. While universal screening is advocated as a means to enhance the gifted identification process (and rightly so!), practical guidance on its implementation remains limited.
-
Overreliance on IQ Testing Leads to Unsupported Students
Assessments of the gifted should provide objectivity and a data point which can be consistent across a range of abilities. However, in some cases the test used to evaluate the level of ability in students is both inaccurate and limiting.
-
Smart, But How? Assessing Non-Academic Intelligence
Intelligence-ranking assessments are not designed to capture giftedness expressed as creativity or style, nor does potential manifest itself in most academic testing (Lohman et al., 2008; Mun et al., 2020; Siegle et al., 2016).
-
iReady as an Indicator of Giftedness?
Districts have long searched for an online tool to support all assessments. Serving as a diagnostic Swiss knife, the online program should measure mastery of skills, remediate as necessary, challenge where appropriate, and provide fine-tuned data to allow a grade-level team to address learning gaps. For many districts, these tools…
Gifted Weekly 