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BESTS is designed to identify, via above-level testing, students in grades 4-9 who need further educational challenge to fully realize their academic talent. Above-level testing is an educational procedure in which a test developed for older students is administered to younger students. BESTS students are eligible to participate in Belin-Blank Center precollege programs. The Center currently offers ten different summer programs as well as an academic-year program that takes place on selected Saturdays during the fall and spring semesters.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~belinctr/talent-search/index.html
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This talent search identifies academically talented third through sixth graders by giving them a test designed for eighth graders.
http://www.cmu.edu/cmites/ests.html
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The Duke University Talent Identification Program (Duke TIP) identifies gifted children in 4th, 5th and 7th grades and provides resources to nurture the development of these exceptionally bright youngsters. Giftedness is greatly misunderstood, and children with advanced intellectual and academic abilities continually perplex and challenge educators and parents. Duke TIP is committed to serving this unique group of students by providing services and programs beyond what is offered in the classroom. Through Duke TIP, a whole range of activities a...
http://www.tip.duke.edu
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For more than 20 years, this Center at Johns Hopkins University has identified America’s top academic students in grades two through eight and provided challenging educational programs through their 10th grade year.
http://cty.jhu.edu/
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The University of Washington is home to an internationally unique and renowned resource for gifted students, the Halbert and Nancy Robinson Center for Young Scholars. For more than 25 years, the Robinson Center has been the gateway through which some of the brightest young scholars in Washington State enter the UW and/or participate in academically accelerated summer courses. The Robinson Center focuses on the vital questions about how to optimize young people's development and inspire them to achieve personal and professional excellence, as w...
http://www.depts.washington.edu/cscy/programs/
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The University of California, Irvine sponsors the UCI Academic Talent Search (ATS) which is a two-fold testing program designed primarily for students in grades six through ten. It identifies students with extraordinary mathematical and/or verbal reasoning abilities, assists participants in their placement in pre-college programs, and offers information and materials which will aid parents and educators of high-ability students. By participating in ATS, you will gain valuable information about your mathematical and verbal abilities early in you...
http://www.admissions.uci.edu/ats/brochure.html
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One of the top gifted education and talent development centers in the nation, the Belin-Blank Center has established itself as a worldwide leader in research, training and gifted resources. Gifted students are the focus – this organization concentrates on identification, specialized opportunities (such as talent searches and summer programs) and much more. With a recent focus on international education, useful policy information and more is available for those interested, all over the globe. There are also a number of resources available for p...
http://www.education.uiowa.edu/belinblank/
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The Gifted Resource Center of New England, located in Providence, RI, serves the needs of gifted children, adolescents and their families. Clinical psychological and educational services are offered in assessment, psychotherapy, curriculum design, school consultation and teacher in-service. Also, articles, resource lists, and suggested readings are offered.
http://www.grcne.com/
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Educational Options is about meeting the social, emotional, and academic needs of the intellectually gifted. It is about "thinking outside the box," for people who do not fit the norms. Although Educational Options is centered in Minnesota and especially serves the needs of gifted children in Minnesota, it is possible to arrange for assessments and consultations from anywhere in the country.
http://www.educationaloptions.com/
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This website is Dr. Sylvia Rimm's homepage. It contains links to numerous articles that are relevant to the profoundly intelligent and their parents. Her books are described and there are excerpts from her books on the site as well as ways to order them. She also has tapes, a newsletter, and other items of interest. Dr. Rimm's Family Achievement Clinic specializes in gifted children who have problems in school as well as counseling on other gifted issues.
http://www.sylviarimm.com
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Harcourt Assessment is the new name for the organization that combines the product lines of two highly respected leaders in the assessment industry – The Psychological Corporation and Harcourt Educational Measurement. The vision of The Psychological Corporation was to develop psychological tests and materials for practicing psychologists and to publish individualised psychological assessments such as David Wechsler's Wechsler Intelligence Scales. The Psychological Corporation was the clinical division of Harcourt Assessment, which also had an...
http://harcourtassessment.com/HAIWEB/Cultures/en-us/default
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"The system for identifying gifted and talented students described in this article is based on a broad range of research that has accumulated over the years on the characteristics of creative and productive individuals (Renzulli, 1986). Essentially, this research tells us that highly productive people are characterized by three interlocking clusters of ability, these clusters being above average (though not necessarily superior) ability, task commitment, and creativity."
http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~nrcgt/sem/semart04.html
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This article provides an overview of the process involved with assessing gifted children. Author Julia Osborn covers a number of issues related to assessment, including: The differences between testing and assessment; the relevance of the child's age, intellectual ability and educational ability and more. Osborn highlights the fact that there are both similarities and differences in the assessment process between gifted students and other types of children.
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/assessing_gifted_print.htm
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Helen Dowland is a Gifted Education Consultant who specializes in analyzing problems and developing practical solutions. On her website, she offers advice and a great variety of downloadable documents for personal use by parents and teachers.
http://www.helendowland.fasthit.net/
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This online article by David Farmer provides some ideas on identifying and parenting gifted preschoolers. Farmer suggests parents should take notice of milestones other than the common ones of walking, talking etc., such as advanced thinking, reasoning, particular creativity, humour and joke telling, spontaneity and being competitive.
http://www.austega.com/gifted/preschoolers.htm
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Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation (PARE) is an on-line journal. Its purpose is to provide education professionals access to refereed articles that can have a positive impact on assessment, research, evaluation, and teaching practice, especially at the local education agency (LEA) level.
http://pareonline.net/
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This article, on Wrightslaw.com, is a useful starting point for understanding more about assessment. Authors: Peter W. D. Wright, Esq. and Pamela Darr Wright, M.A., M.S.W.
http://www.wrightslaw.com/advoc/articles/tests_measurements.html
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This is such a great resource to help parents understand tests and measurements. It talks about evidence and law of testing, the process of educational decision-making, statistics and general principles. It also discusses the bell curve and understanding the test data. This is a very in-depth article.
http://www.ldonline.org/article/6026
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This GT program is charged with identifying academically gifted students and providing for the special needs of these students. Gifted students tend to learn at a remarkably rapid rate, to be extremely sensitive and intense. The characteristics of gifted students create special needs which the Fort Bend ISD/GT Program is designed to meet. Early testing, K-8, is also available.
http://www.fortbendisd.com/gifted
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Assessment is at the center of all good teaching, and this book is designed to provide a clear, comprehensive guide to the assessment of students with mild disabilities. This book will give you both an understanding of the assessment process and the concrete, practical skills necessary to assess special students successfully so that you can teach them well.
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The standard for all assessment personnel, this book continues its tradition of evenhanded coverage of formal and informal assessment for the purpose of making educational decisions about students.
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This is Hollingworth's classic set of case studies of 12 children above 180 IQ. For most of the 20th century, this book was the definitive work on profoundly gifted children. It is an absolute must-read for anyone who is raising, teaching, counseling, or assessing a profoundly gifted child. The book consists of detailed case studies of the 12 children, including early childhood developmental history; school history and adjustment; test performance on a variety of measures; examples of children's work; and, as far as was possible to trace, their...
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In this book, David Sousa examines why traditional talent-identification techniques are inadequate (and often inaccurate), and presents methods that will allow you to identify giftedness and talent potential with greater accuracy than ever before.
http://www.sagepub.com/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book225802
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This practical resource offers up-to-date information for building an effictive, defenssible identification process. It acts as a hands-on, research-based guide for identifying gifted and talented children.
http://www.alibris.com/search/detail.cfm?chunk=25&mtype=&qtit=Identifying%20Gifted%20Students%20%20A%20Practical%20Guide&S=R&bid=8787745990&pbest=&pqtynew=&page=1&matches=1&qsort=r
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Written by six experts in the field, this award winning book (2006 recipient of the ForeWord Magazine's Gold Medal Best Book of the Year Award in Psychology) discusses the importance of identifying giftedness and understanding how the characteristics of being gifted are often similar to those used to diagnosis disorders such as ADHD, ODD, Bipolar, OCD, Autism, or Asperser’s. This book outlines steps for successfully identifying the differences between giftedness and disorders.
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This book is written specifically for parents who wonder if their child is gifted. Author David Palmer helps parents who have little or no experience with gifted testing and programming and explains these topics in-depth. The text is written in a succinct, easy-to-understand format and answers the questions that parents most commonly ask.
http://www.parentguidebooks.com/
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Alexandra Golon explains how the reader can assess and identify a visual-spatial child then offers tips to parent and educate them. This book also serves to enlighten the rest of the family as well.
http://www.visualspatial.org/raising_topsy_turvy.htm
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With Dr. Ruby Pane, Dr. Paul Slocumb, former president of Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented and an educator for 30 years, explains how standard identification tools are not the best way to identify gifted children in poverty. The authors have created new instruments that take poverty into account, which provide schools a method for achieving equity in gifted programs.
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John Philo Dixon decribes ways to identify spatial children by addressing their cognitive perception and offers advice on methods of teaching in the classroom.
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