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The Second
Symposium on Assessment
of the Gifted
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2009 Symposium: March 27 in Van Nuys, CA. The new individual intelligence scales have raised many questions for school districts and schools for the gifted, as well as for state legislation, regarding selection of students for gifted programs. Our models for the identification of gifted students originated during simpler times, when one IQ test was popular throughout the United States, and it generated a single IQ score. The new IQ tests have rendered all of these ideas obsolete. Different IQ tests no longer measure the same basic construct of intelligence. Each test identifies a different population as gifted. Gifted students may obtain widely varying scores on different instruments. This symposium addressed the varied issues around the administration and use of different IQ assessments in the selection of students for gifted schools, programs and services.
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Symposium on the Assessment of the Gifted
Friday, March 27, 2009
7:30am - 9:30pm
at the Airtel Plaza Hotel Conference Center Van Nuys, CA.
This program offered 8 CE credits for psychologists; see below for details.
Presenters included: Richard Boolootian, Tom Cayton, Bobbie Gilman, Alan Kaufman, James Kaufman, Kathi Kearney, Linda Powers Leviton, Annemarie Roeper, Linda Silverman, and John Wasserman.
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PowerPoint and/or PDF slides of the presentations and the handouts are now available online -- visit http://www.sciencedestinations.org/2009symposiumpresentations.htm for the links and a summary of the presentations. A complete video of the Symposium was made, and dvd copies will be available shortly -- check back soon for a link to the order form.
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8 CE Credits Available for Psychologists for $25
This program has been reviewed and approved for CE credit for psychologists by the American Psychological Association's Continuing Education Committee. This program offered 8 CE credits for psychologists. The provider maintained responsibility for the delivery of the program. Attendees who wish credits may still apply; pay by PayPal (below) or check; email Organizer Donna Hay at dhay16301@sbcglobal.net. Approval #08-219.
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History of the Symposiums on the Assessment of the Gifted. Linda Silverman and Richard Boolootion organized the first Symposium on Assessment of the Gifted held at the World Council for Gifted Children Conference in New Orleans in 2005. At that time, all of the major IQ tests used to select gifted students had been completely reformulated in the last two years. The scores they generate are not comparable to scores derived from previous versions. Therefore, it is essential for all personnel who rely on intelligence tests to understand how to interpret information from these new instruments. There have been both improvements and losses for gifted students. Test ceilings have been extended, which enables gifted learners to demonstrate more of their knowledge, but scoring protocols do not reflect this higher performance. The new tests provide better assessments of visual-spatial abilities; however, the increased emphasis on processing skills lowers scores.
The 2005 symposium addressed:
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Appropriate use and interpretation of different IQ tests
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Strengths and weaknesses of various tests
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Performance of children in different ranges of giftedness on different instruments (i.e., gifted, highly gifted, exceptionally gifted, profoundly gifted);
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Which tests or parts of tests to use for which purposes
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Assessment of gifted children with learning disabilities
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Where do we go from here? Qualitative Assessment of the gifted
For more information on the first symposium, visit the Gifted Development Center website at: gifteddevelopment.com/.
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