Joyce Vantassel-Baska

Alternative Assessments for Identifying Gifted and Talented Students (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sourcebooks Inc
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781593635190
• Artikelnr.: 37965780

Autorenporträt

Joyce VanTassel-Baska, Ed.D., is the Smith Professor Emerita at William & Mary, where she developed a graduate program and a research and development center in gifted education. She has published widely, including 30 books and more than 700 refereed journal articles, book chapters, and scholarly reports.

Inhaltsangabe

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