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Extractions: Rebecca Zwick's letter to The Nation responding to my review of her book and my reply. "GIFTED" SCHOOLS: A GIFT FOR THE RICH 07-Jan-2003 In Boise, Idaho, where I live, school officials have forged ahead with their plan to create an island of separation between so-called gifted children and their merely ordinary peers using intelligence tests as the primary screening device. In our test-obsessed culture, it might sound reasonable to many parents and educators to screen students for a gifted school based on their performance on IQ tests. Indeed, we are often awed by people who test off the charts on standardized tests, whether its the Iowa Test of Basic Skills or the SATs for college admission. I encountered one Boise parent, for instance, whose 7th grade son scored in the 99th percentile on a standardized achievement test but whose actual school work, according to Mom, was rather shoddy, at best. Teachers were in awe of those test scores, the mom told me. They didnt see him. They saw him as his test scores. Despite the widespread belief that even the most complex human traits and activities can be neatly summed up and valued by a single number, whether its achievement tests to measure the quality of our schools, SATs to measure ones merit for selection to an elite university, or stock prices to indicate the value of a puffed up company like Enron, the numbers are far from the absolute measures of institutional value or individual merit that we like to think. Any plan that would designate gifted children according to results of IQ tests is riddled with a number of troubling problems.
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Extractions: Home ADD Choices News Information for Paras Who is BJ ? ... Blue Dino Please help .. click on the pig Please help .. click on the pig HOW SMART ? Adapted from an article by Sam Goldstein, Ph.D. An online professionals on ADHD group I belong to recently posed this question. Are there characteristics unique to children with ADHD demonstrating superior or better intellectual abilities? Dr. Sam Goldstein addresses this question. I have quoted some of his information here and added my own comments. "START OF DIRECT QUOTE ===== > Measures of sustained attention and inhibition are associated to a small but significant degree with measures of intelligence. Matching subjects with ADHD with controls and statistically controlling for I.Q. differences appears to reduce or eliminate the effects of ADHD upon intelligence. Group differences in Verbal I.Q. should not be viewed as an artifact of group selection nor as a source of error to be removed. These differences may in fact reflect real differences in the two populations. The preponderance of the data suggests, however, that less than 10% of the variance in Verbal I.Q. is accounted for by ADHD. Thus, the population of individuals with ADHD generally falls along a normal distribution in terms of intellectual skills. One might expect that 3% to 5% of those with gifted intellect will meet the symptom criteria for ADHD. <=== END OF DIRECT QUOTE."
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Extractions: The Discovery Program The self-contained Discovery Program is a fulltime service model designed to meet the needs of exceptionally intelligent, high achieving students whose needs cannot easily be met in the general classroom. The program serves students in grades three through six in multi-aged classes. The curriculum addresses the district's essential academic learning requirements and extends into accelerated instruction appropriate for intellectually gifted children. Students in the Discovery Program work at accelerated levels to match their unique developmental needs. Pacing is more rapid, activities are more rigorous and students are expected to demonstrate high level qualities of self-directed learners . The program is designed to reflect challenges most suited for exceptionally gifted students with very high intellectual levels of achievement. Selection for the Discovery Program reflects state guidelines for identifying intellectually gifted students. Criteria include achievement and IQ tests as well as teacher observation. All scores are placed on a matrix and a selection index score is derived. Typically, seven to nine students at each grade level meet the criteria. We carefully select students who clearly have unique intellectual needs and strive to maintain small classes so that these needs can be met through a curriculum that emphasizes individualization.
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Extractions: This page contains a link to every major topic on this site. Just click on the heading, and you will be brought to that page. I hope this helps you navigate through this site as it grows. Yours, Sheri Home Page Message Board FAQ ... Social Studies World History History - Canadian and American Children's Search Engines Canadian Learning Opportunites for Gifted Children (Workshops, etc) Peel Summer Academy ... Our daughter's identification and placement process
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Extractions: Introduction: In the following page you will find some useful links for the most common IQ and Achievement tests that you are likely to come across. While the Stanford Binet LM is the most appropriate test for the highly gifted, it is not accepted by the school boards as the actual test itself is,not only considered out of date (unfortunately), but is also available to the general public and therefor is assumed to be unreliable. For a great collection of articles and links regarding to testing, please visit Hoagies Gifted Testing Page Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (3) WISC - III WISC - III Information A page description of the WISC -III Wechsler Individual Achievement Test (2nd Ed.) Wechsler Individual Achievement Test (2nd Ed.) A page description of the WIAT 2nd. Edition Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence - Revised (WPPSI) WPPSI Information A page description of the WPPSI - R WPPSI Subtests I A website with some detail on the various subtests on the WPPSI WPPSI Subtests II A great page listing a description of the various subtests of the WPPSI-R. Includes some examples to understand the wording of the test.
Extractions: Printed in PHS #4, 1993. Portions of this article and its sidebars are taken from the works of Charlotte Mason, British education reformer and founder of the Parents' National Education Union, and H. Clay Trumbull, a founder of the American Sunday School movement. Both authors lived and wrote in the nineteenth century. A pair of sisters stand side by side at the bathroom sink peacefully brushing their teeth. Their four-year-old brother bounds into the room,. Using much force he lifts the heavy stepping stool and squeezes it between them. Standing on his soapbox, now eye-level with his sisters, he states, "I want to brush my teeth." One annoyed sister, mouth full of foaming toothpaste, replies, "Can't you wait your turn?" Her brother eloquently argues, "Haven't you ever heard the story of the little boy who couldn't get any water to brush his teeth so da-seeds grew in his mouth?" "No, what seeds?" chuckles the sister, rinsing her mouth.
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Extractions: ASSESSMENT OVERVIEW The purpose of assessment is to ascertain whether the student is failing, and to what degree, compared with his peers. if he is behind expected levels, it is necessary to establish whether this is due to overall low ability, physical factors such as hearing or sight difficulty or a repeated absence due to illness, emotional or social factors, such as family problems, bereavement, or frequent changes of school, or whether the student has a specific learning difficulty. It is important to remember that more than one factor may be at work in an individual. For example, a failing child who has frequent absences due to asthma attacks may also have a hearing loss or a specific learning difficulty. Differential diagnosis in such cases, as in the case of bilingual children or those for whom English is not the mother tongue, is a delicate and specialised task. It is necessary when assessing a student to ascertain his strengths as well as his weaknesses; these can then be used in teaching. A distinction must be made between his underlying ability (you may call this intelligence, or academic potential) and how he is performing now (i.e. his levels in literacy and numeracy). If there is a discrepancy between these two, the assessment of individual skills and a carefully taken case history will, it is hoped, lead to insights into the areas of skill deficit. Some of the skills, such as phonological awareness are essential to the development of literacy, other skill deficits may be among the effects of literacy failure. Some aspects of development, such as the establishment of laterality, may be useful diagnostic indicators.
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Extractions: There are many reasons for teens to underperform at school, including a lack of motivation to do well, problems at home or with peers, poor work habits or study skills, emotional and behavior problems, learning disabilities (such as dyslexia), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, mental retardation or below average intelligence and other medical problems, including anxiety and depression. Also keep in mind that children with sleep problems, such as obstructive sleep apnea, or inadequate sleep, can have problems in school, usually secondary to attentional problems and daytime sleepiness. It is important to find the reason for your child's poor performance, especially if she is failing, and come up with a treatment plan so that she can perform up to her full potential. Another reason to get your child help, is that doing poorly in school can easily lead to problems with low self-esteem, behavior problems and depression.
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Extractions: Home Who we are How to join Support groups ... Search site by Phoebe Fong-Smith Public school students are constantly referred to school psychologists from different referral sources and for a variety of reasons. These students include those with learning disabilities, behavioral problems, attention deficit disorders and physical disabilities as well as those at the top end of the scale. A senior school psychologist with the Education Department, who assesses an annual average of about 250 students, says, "Most of these students are primarily school referrals. Some are from doctors to us via the parents. That's in consultation with the school. "There are also referrals from psychiatrists and other professionals like the Child and Mental Health Services. Others are by special requests from parents who want to know what to do with their children, and early-age enrolment applicants referred from the Department." The psychologist averages that out of the 250 students referred to him for assessments each year, about 20 would be requests for identification of intellectual giftedness. However, he points out that not all the 20 come through as intellectually gifted. Some are just bright children or can read well.
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Extractions: Home Who we are How to join Support groups ... Search site The general approach to identification has changed over the past few decades with this partly reflecting the change in definitions of giftedness , and even of intelligence. Some have argued intelligence is no better defined that as what intelligence tests measure. This is not the case - the words intelligence and intelligent have meaning in common communication, and are generally understood along the lines of a capacity to see patterns in, and thus be able to analyse and understand, complex phenomena. But the concept of intelligence has recently been given broader and more differentiated meanings such as with the recognition of specific and non-traditional talent areas and the popularising of concepts of "emotional intelligence" and "multiple intelligences". This is a positive movement away from the earlier unitary view of intelligence and giftedness (where a gifted child was considered to have superior aptitudes in all fields of intellectual endeavour). Multi-faceted definitions of giftedness now are common, which include children with exceptional capacity in one or more broad areas of skill. Some skill areas present difficult measurement issues, particularly of capacity rather than achievement, but within this constraint the top 2-5% of the population in one of the fields are generally regarded as gifted.
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Extractions: EDUCATION AND CLASS OBJECTIVES: The student will be able to: Identify, describe and give examples of, the various attempts to explain class differences in educational attainment. The conditions of economic expansion and apparent affluence in Britain during the 1950s and 60s resulted in two pervasive beliefs: 1. That significant class differences in economic reward and social conditions had been greatly reduced, leading to the idea that class differences were disappearing-"We're all middle class now." 2. That "equality of Opportunity" had been established within the education system, therefore social class no longer influenced educational performance. The first belief was challenged by the work of sociologists in general, but particularly by those involved in social mobility research. The second was challenged by educational sociologists. Types of explanation 1. Intelligence-nature/nurture debate-focus w/c 50s 60s 3. School based-the standards debate- Societal-Marxist/Feminist-focus w/c girls and Ethnic Minorities Another way of considering these various types of explanation is to see them as: 1. Genetic explanations
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Extractions: Many Gifted Children by Craig Howley At least since the appearance of the classic study of school readiness by Morphet and Washburne (1931), and doubtless long before, educators have debated the issue of when children should start school. Nevertheless, "readiness," as Dr. Lilian Katz notes, remains an elusive construct. Parents and teachers have known from the beginning of this debate, however, that some children do benefit from schooling sooner than others. The success of early school entry stems from two characteristics: first, the intellectual orientation of the home (Bloom, 1985) and second (to the extent that it is distinguishable from the first), the developmental characteristics of the child (Roedell, Jackson, and Robinson, 1980). In the case of gifted children, standardized tests capture data related to these characteristics. Gifted children learn rapidly, and for them in particular, the instruction most schools provide moves too slowly (Rogers, 1986). Fortunately, most states now make provisions for the identification of gifted children, and most rely on IQ tests for this purpose (Howley, 1986). Whatever the dubious uses of IQ tests (Gould, 1981), they do reliably identify very able children who can move rapidly through schools rather than schools in some idealized, and perhaps unattainable, future state. Courts have consistently upheld the use of IQ tests for this purpose (Zirkel and Stevens, 1986).
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Extractions: Main Page In-home main page Information provided by the Autism Society of Wisconsin is for information purposes only. You are responsible for the choice of any treatment or therapy option or service provider. Reference to any treatment or therapy option or to any program, service or treatment provider is not an endorsement by ASW of the treatment or therapy option, program, service or provider. You should investigate alternative that may be appropriate for a specific individual. ASW assumes no responsibility for the use made of any information published or provided by ASW. QUESTIONS FOR IN-HOME AUTISM TREATMENT PROVIDERS Responses are in italics . Spelling and typographical errors are the sole fault of the webmaster. Where indicated [sic], it was not clear what the word was. Word is in parentheses with a question mark when handwritten word was not clear. Wisconsin Early Autism Project, Inc. Madison
