Our Gifted Online Conferences
presents
Kathi Kearney M.A. Ed. & Barbara
J. Gilman M.S. March 20 - 24, 2004
Assessment and Testing: What about the SB5, WISC-IV, and Other Tests?
This conference will explore some of the issues surrounding assessment of gifted children. When is assessment appropriate? Who should assess gifted children? What instruments are most commonly used, and why? What is the impact of new assessment instruments and new revisions on the identification of gifted children? What information can be gained from a full evaluation, and how can this information most effectively be used in both the classroom and at home?
Barbara Gilman, M.S.
Barbara Gilman, M.S.,
specializes in the assessment of gifted children, the creation of educational
programs to motivate them, and helping parents and teachers to support their
academic, social, and emotional needs. The Director of Staff Development at
the Gifted Development Center in Denver, she has degrees in Psychology and
Child Development, trains testers in the unique issues of the gifted, and supervises
reports. Bobbie has extensive experience working with the gifted, highly gifted,
gifted individuals with learning disabilities, AD/HD, and underachievement issues.
A mother of profoundly gifted sons, she is a veteran of gifted committees and
helped create an accelerated charter middle school. Bobbie is a popular presenter
to parent groups and teachers, and consults with parents worldwide.Her
new book, Empowering Gifted Minds: Educational Advocacy that works, addresses
the many questions parents ask about gifted advocacy.
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Kathi Kearney M.A. Ed.
Kathi Kearney, M.A.
Ed., currently teaches gifted students at the Noble VI School in Berwick, ME
and is also a Professional Associate with the Gifted Development Center in Denver,
CO. She is the founder of the Hollingworth Center for Highly Gifted Children,
a national resource and support network for exceptionally gifted children and
their families. She was an instructor in talented and gifted education at Iowa
State University in Ames, Iowa for two years. Kathi has worked with children
as a teacher and administrator in a wide variety of settings, urban and rural,
in public, private, religious, and home schools. She is the Past Chair of the
Conceptual Foundations Division of the National Association for Gifted Children
(NAGC), and has contributed scholarly journal articles on such topics as assessment,
the highly gifted child, rural and distance learning, minority groups in gifted
education, and Leta Hollingworths work on children with IQ scores above 180.
Her most recent research project involved conducting validation studies of the
new Stanford Binet Fifth Edition for Riverside Publishing.
Opening
Statement
Barbara
J.Gilman's closing Statement
Kathi
Kearney's Closing Statement
Sally_L,
Conference Coordinator's Closing Statement
This conference will
be moderated This conference is now closed
March 20th & 21st, 2004
extended to March 23rd
You MUST read the following ground rules and send a confirmation you have read and will follow the Ground RULES to be able to participate online during this conference. Send your confirmation to Sally_L@comcast.net
GROUND RULES
"ground rules" for this conference. . .and
that goes, even if the info about item content is located somewhere else on
the internet, it CANNOT be posted on the list.
Many times, parents add in "anecdotes" about
specific things that their child did on the tests (perhaps overhearing a
test question, or being in the room when a young child took the test).
We need to make it VERY clear *we* cannot give out any
information on specific items, NOR SHOULD THE POSTERS!
Under test ethics we CANNOT discuss the content of individual
items/subtests, nor should posters offer such info on the lists, in order to
protect test security.
Any list member(s) doing such, intentionally
or unintentionally, will be immediately deleted from the list membership!!!
You may read articles on www.hoagiesgifted.com
and www.ditd.org on assessment and testing as pre-conference reading.
Other
resources will be posted later as resources which came forth from this supposed
2 day conference. LOL.
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