Identification Process
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The identification process for Academically and/or intellectually Gifted
The identification process for Academically and/or intellectually Gifted
In the Spring, all 2nd grade students are screened for giftedness with the Cognitive Abilities Test. If a student scores at or above the 85%ile on the CogAt, they are invited to take the Iowa Achievement Test in Reading and Math.
When a student is in the 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade, they can be nominated by a parent, teacher, self or other stakeholder. The School Based Committee for Gifted Education (SBCGE) will collect all available data as a part of the referral process. Two times a year, Spring and Fall, students who are good candidates for AIG are screened using the CogAt and Iowa screeners.
Identification Opportunities:
Students may be identified for gifted education as either Academically Gifted (AG), Intellectually Gifted (IG) or Academically and Intellectually Gifted (AIG). All students are served together in the AIG classroom.
Academically Gifted - student was identified with a score of 95%ile or higher on the Iowa Test or other WCPSS approved achievement measure.
Intellectually Gifted - student was identified with a score of 95%ile or higher on one of the CogAt areas, Verbal = IG Reading, Quantitative or Non-Verbal = IG Math
Academically and Intellectually Gifted - student meet both the criteria for AG and IG.
What is Talent Development?Â
A Talent Development (TD) model is use in all elementary and middle schools. TD students are defined as being high performing students who show the potential for gifted identification but did not have qualifying scores on the district screeners. A portfolio was created for these students showing high achievement on Grade Level Assessments, Historical Data, ACCESS for multilingual students, Classroom Work Samples, Gifted Rating Scales, and Standardized test scores. Talent Development students are served at the same time as identified gifted students.
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