Alternative Assessments With Gifted and Talented Students

Joyce VanTassel-Baska

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781032144689
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000495195
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• 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 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