ITAG Conference 2018

The process by which students are selected for gifted services in schools is one of the most common and also the most daunting and fraught with controversy. This session will offer five (plus one) recommendations for how to implement gifted student identification policies that 1) locate the students they are supposed to find / miss as few as possible and 2) mitigate the underrepresentation of students from traditionally underrepresented populations. These recommendations include universal consideration, two-phase identification systems, building norms, group specific norms, lower overall criteria, and identification system – program alignment.