Gifted Student Assessments

This article is about the role of assessments to identify gifted students. The NAGC believes there are certain things that are very important to identifying gifted and talented learners. They say their needs to be defensible measurement practices, and the test needs to be administered by people with the appropriate training. There has been a big push of assessments being different for those students who are under represented. The article says, “NAGC believes that assessments selected for use in the identification of gifted students must be sensitive to and appropriate for the characteristics of the students being assessed and must aim to be inclusive of students from different cultures, races, and economic circumstances” (NAGC, 1). The article also says that the assessments should be based on the norms of the population of students. With these alternate types of testing, it is believed that these tests should not be used as the only thing …show more content…
They are objective- type assessments, performance assessments, and rating scales/interviews. With the objective- type assessments the article says, “When using these types of assessments, users should be fully aware of the test’s purposes and have evidence of sufficient reliability of the test scores. In addition, test users should use assessments that have a sufficient ceiling for measuring students’ aptitudes or achievement, lack item bias, and have support for the validity of the types of decisions that will be made based on the results of the assessment”(NAGC, 3). The performance assessment uses constructed response and it measures the domain specific area or content. Rating scales or interviews are based on the behaviors of the certain student. The article says, “NAGC believes that the use of rating scales and interviews should play only a supplementary role in the identification process. Collecting these types of information is very difficult to