Balanced research and practice Twice-exceptional students are students who are talented on the one hand, with learning, developmental, or behavioral difficulties on the other. Identifying these students and their educational needs can be difficult due to the large individual differences between and within these students. The...
Balanced research and practice Gifted education is undergoing a paradigm shift, from "serving the gifted" to "developing many and varied talents". Talent development has a broader psychosocial basis than "giftedness" implies, and allow a much more diverse group of individuals to participate in opportunities to realize...
Balanced research and practice Districts often include parental referrals, outside testing, and provisions for appeals in their gifted and talented identification policies. Unfortunately, all of these policies can only exacerbate racial / ethnic and socioeconomic inequity in identified gifted populations. This session will identify why this...
Balanced research and practice The identification of students for gifted programs is often a balancing act of accuracy and cost. Administering identification assessments to all students misses the fewest students, but requires the most time and money. To limit costs, some districts put relatively few students...
Balanced research and practice In research, it is common to define giftedness in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions – a ‘classical definition’ (Andersen 2002). In practice, such definitions are problematic because they are either too narrow, too wide, and involve an arbitrary cut-off. In two...