Alternative Assessments With Gifted and Talented Students

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-59363-298-4
Verlag: Prufrock Press

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 228 mm x 152 mm, Gewicht: 506 g

Alternative Assessments With Gifted and Talented Students provides a concise and thorough introduction to methods for identifying gifted students in the school setting.

Including overviews of assessment tools and alternative methods of assessment, as well as pertinent discussions concerning the need to identify gifted and talented students, this book combines research and experience from top scholars in the field of gifted education in a convenient guide for teachers, administrators, and gifted education program directors.

Topics covered include the need for nonverbal testing with traditionally unidentified students; the identification of students from minority populations; the value of using traditional assessments with students; the role of creativity tools as a measure of giftedness; and the use of portfolios, products, and performance-based assessment to document learning; among others. This handy guide to assessing and identifying gifted students is a necessity for anyone serving and working with this population.

A service publication of the National Association for Gifted Children (Washington, DC)This designation indicates that this book has been jointly developed with NAGC and that this book passes the highest standards of scholarship, research, and practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vantassel-Baska, Joyce

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sonderpädagogik, Heilpädagogik Hochbegabtenförderung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements 1. An Overview of Alternative Assessment Measures for Gifted Learners and the Issues That Surround Their Use 2. Nontraditional Strategies for Identifying Nontraditional Gifted and Talented Students 3. Nonverbal Test Scores as One Component of an Identification System: Integrating Ability, Achievement, and Teacher Ratings 4. Traditional IQ: 100 Years of Misconception and Its Relationship to Minority Representation in Gifted Programs 5. Using Off-Level Testing and Assessment for Gifted and Talented Students 6. Intelligence Testing and Cultural Diversity: The Need for Alternative Instruments, Policies, and Procedures 7. Identifying Low-Income and Minority Students for Gifted Programs: Academic and Affective Impact of Performance-Based Assessment 8. The Rainbow Project: Using a Psychological Theory of Giftedness to Improve the Identification of Gifted Children 9. The Value of Traditional Assessments as Approaches to Identifying Academically Gifted Students 10. Nontraditional Applications of Traditional Testing 11. The Role of Creativity Tools and Measures 203 in Assessing Potential and Growth 12. Portfolio Assessment of Gifted Students 13. Product Assessment 14. Using Performance-Based Assessment to Document Authentic Learning 15. Epilogue: What Do We Know About Identifying and Assessing the Learning of Gifted Students? Appendix: Alternative Assessment Tools for Gifted Learners About the Editor About the Authors

Über Autor(innen)

Joyce VanTassel-Baska, Ed.D., is the Jody and Layton Smith Professor Emerita of Education and former Executive Director of the Center for Gifted Education at William & Mary in Virginia, where she developed a graduate program and a research and development center in gifted education. She also initiated and directed the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University.