A simultaneous screening/assessment procedure for identifying the gifted student

✍ Scribed by Margaret Linn; Edward Lopatin

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 446 KB
• Volume: 27
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0033-3085
• DOI: 10.1002/1520-6807(199010)27:4<303::aid-pits2310270404>3.0.co;2-l

✦ Synopsis

In response to the new demands on their time, school psychologists are seeking more efficient ways to deliver routine services. This study seeks to develop an efficient, but accurate, simultaneous screening/assessment procedure for identifying gifted students for special programs. The screening procedure uses the four-subtest (Vocabulary, Picture Arrangement, Arithmetic, Block Design) short form of the WISC-R; students exceeding designated cut-off sum of scaled scores at screening are immediately given the remaining six subtests to assess program eligibility. To evaluate the proposed procedure, the statistical relationship between subtest and full test scores was estimated using test score data from 203 students who had received the full WISC-R. The relationship allowed the prediction of false negatives for specific sum of scaled score cutoff scores. For this population, a subtest screening score of 52 proved to be both efficient and accurate, minimizing false negatives while saving up to one hour of psychologist's time per child recommended for testing.