Identifying Gifted Students: A Practical Guide [Paperback]

Susan Johnsen Ph.D. (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2003

Identifying Gifted Students: A Practical Guide offers up-to-date information for building an effective, defensible identification process. It acts as a hands-on, research-based guide for identifying gifted and talented children.

Designed for practicing professionals such as teachers, counselors, psychologists, and administrators who must make decisions daily about identifying and serving gifted and talented students, this book acts as a handbook for establishing procedures that are effective in identifying gifted and talented students from diverse backgrounds.

Topics include: definitions, models, and characteristics of gifted students; qualitative and quantitative approaches to assessment; culturally fair and non-biased assessment; a complete summary of all major assessment instruments, including: (1) scoring information, (2) reliability, (3) norming information, and (4) validity; making decisions about placement; and evaluating the effectiveness of identification procedures.

This book should be very helpful to practitioners in establishing procedures that are effective in identifying gifted and talented students.

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As editor, Susan Johnsen offers a book that is both practical and informative. Designed for professionals working with the gifted and talented, her book seeks to meet the informational needs of teachers of the gifted, school administrators, psychologists, and psychometrists. Readers will find chapters that cover the gamut of gifted education basics and extend beyond to offer guidance to decision-makers seeking to identify these children for services.

Identifying Gifted Students: A Practical Guide is a brief, yet thorough, overview of issues surrounding the identification of gifted students. The book lives up to its title in that educators can turn to it as an authoritative reference in matters of assessing students and count on receiving practical and easy-to-implement solutions for their assessment needs. --

Sandee Manning, Ph.D., Gifted Education Communicator: A Journal for Educators and Parents, Spring 2005

About the Author

Susan K. Johnsen, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at Baylor University. She directs the Ph.D. program, and programs related to gifted and talented education. She is past-president of the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented. She has written more than 100 articles, monographs, technical reports, and books related to gifted education. She is a frequent presenter at international, national, and state conferences.

She is editor of Gifted Child Today and serves on the editorial boards of Gifted Child Quarterly and Journal for Advanced Academics. She is the author of Identifying Gifted Students: A Practical Guide. She also coauthored the Independent Study Program and three tests that are used in identifying gifted students: Test of Mathematical Abilities for Gifted Students (TOMAGS), Test of Nonverbal Intelligence (TONI-3), and Screening Assessment for Gifted Students (SAGES-2).

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Prufrock Press Inc. (November 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1593630034
• ISBN-13: 978-1593630034
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #190,008 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Identifying Gifted Students, March 5, 2009

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I purchased the book as a part of a class requirement for my G/T endorsement. It is well written and provided me with an understandable knowledge of the processes necessary gifted identification. It cuts through alot of the details not necessary for the lay person to know.