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25.073 - Truth and Consequences: Different Reference Groups in Gifted Identification

Sat, April 6, 8:00 to 9:30am, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Floor: 200 Level, Room 206B

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With no federal mandate, schools throughout the United States rely on a wide variety of strategies to identify gifted students. Identification practice quality can vary based on what methods are used (e.g., nomination, testing), what measures are used, how many measures used, cutoff criteria, as well as when and how often identification practices are implemented. Such variation gives schools freedom to match identification practices with service and programming offered. However, such variation has consequences. It contributes to inconsistency in which students are identified as gifted both across and within states. In this symposium we examine various identification methods, particularly those aimed at mitigating racial / ethnic disproportionality, and what implications they have for gifted education programs and services.

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