How do school personnel determine that a student is eligible for gifted program services?
A. Students who are found eligible for gifted program services have profiles that indicate potential and/or performance at the highest levels. A general guideline is performance and/or potential within the top 3-5% of our student population for any particular facet of intelligence. This means that a student’s potential and/or performances are rather remarkable for that age or grade. The school committee members review all available information on each student and recommend eligibility for those students who present extreme profiles of strength in intellectual/academic areas. No specific score or set of scores can validate eligibility for gifted program services. Students are individually gifted, demonstrating their abilities in a wide variety of ways. It is the quality, intensity, and pattern of strengths that a student displays that provide the identification committee with the information necessary to indicate giftedness to such a degree that the regular education program must be sig
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