Essentials of Gifted Assessment E-Book

Steven I. Pfeiffer

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Serie: Essentials of Psychological Assessment
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 348

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

An Up-to-Date Overview of the Theory and Practice Underlying Gifted Assessment Essentials of Gifted Assessment introduces readers to the theory and practice underlying gifted assessment. Steven Pfeiffer, a leading expert in the field of gifted assessment, discusses what it means to be gifted, why we should identify gifted students, and the purposes of gifted assessment. Well-organized and engaging, the book examines key principles of gifted assessment and provides an up-to-date overview of gifted assessment measures. Topics include the use of local norms, measuring creativity and motivation, nonverbal measures, the importance of recurring gifted assessment, multi-potentiality, gifted testing and minority group students, and evaluating the twice-exceptional student. Early identification and intervention greatly benefits gifted students, who may otherwise never realize their full potential. Throughout the book, Pfeiffer equips school psychologists with the tools they need to: * Identify and assess uniquely bright and talented students * Integrate multiple assessment measures including intelligence, cognitive ability, and achievement tests * Assess gifted students with coexisting disabilities and disorders * Promote the abilities of gifted students using evidence-based strategies The book also includes extensive illustrative material, such as callout boxes and case examples, that facilitate use as a quick reference, plus end-of-chapter "Test Yourself" questions that help reinforce key concepts. Essentials of Gifted Assessment helps new and seasoned school psychologists and other professionals acquire the skills and knowledge needed for ethical, evidence-based, and informed clinical practice with high-ability students.

Leseprobe

CONTENTS

Cover

Essentials of Psychological Assessment Series

Title Page

Copyright

Series Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter One: Introduction to Gifted Assessment

Who Are the Gifted?

Brief History of Gifted Education

Giftedness as a Social Construction

Tripartite Model

Should We Identify Gifted Students?

Purposes of Gifted Assessment

Chapter Two: Conceptions of Giftedness Guide Gifted Assessment

Traditional Psychometric View

Talent Development Models

Expert Performance Perspective

Multiple Intelligences Model

Theory of Successful Intelligence: WICS

Synthesis of Divergent Views of Giftedness

Conclusion

Chapter Three: Gifted Assessment: Guiding Principles and Fundamental Beliefs

Fundamental Beliefs of Gifted Assessment

Key Principles in Gifted Assessment

Beliefs and Principles Conclusion

Decision-Making or Selection Models

Chapter Four: Measuring Intellectual and Academic Ability

Why and When to Use Tests of Cognitive and Academic Ability

Where Does Abstract Reasoning Fit In?

What Tests of Cognitive Ability Measure

General and Specific Abilities

General Ability Index

Clinical Considerations and Adaptations for High-Ability Students

Some Popular IQ Tests Used in Gifted Assessment

A Few Illustrative Academic Measures

Conclusion and Recommendations

Chapter Five: Identifying and Assessing Creativity

Defining Creativity

Measuring Creativity

Creativity, Intelligence, and Talent Development

Chapter Six: Alternative Gifted Assessment Methods

Teacher and Parent Nominations

Portfolio Assessment

Nonverbal Measures

Teacher Ratings

The GRS as a Measure of Change

Assessing Readiness for Grade Acceleration

Chapter Seven: Frequently Asked Questions About Gifted Assessment

Six Questions

Concluding Comments

References

About the Author

Index

End User License Agreement

List of Tables

Table 4.1

Table 4.2

List of Illustrations

Figure 5.1

Figure 6.1

Figure 6.2

Figure 6.3

Guide

Cover

Table of Contents

Begin Reading

Chapter 1

Pages

i

ii

iv

v

vi

xi

xii

xiii

xiv

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

32

33

34

35

36

37

38

39

40

41

42

43

44

45

46

47

48

49

50

51

52

53

54

55

56

57

58

59

60

61

62

63

64

65

66

67

68

69

70

71

72

73

74

75

76

77

78

79

80

81

82

83

84

85

86

87

88

89

90

91

92

93

94

95

96

97

98

99

100

101

102

103

104

105

106

107

108

109

110

111

112

113

114

115

116

117

118

119

120

121

122

123

124

125

126

127

128

129

130

131

132

133

134

135

136

137

138

139

140

141

142

143

144

145

146

147

148

149

150

151

152

153

154

155

156

157

158

159

160

161

162

163

164

165

166

167

168

169

170

171

172

173

174

175

176

Essentials of Psychological Assessment Series

Series Editors, Alan S. Kaufman and Nadeen L. Kaufman

Essentials of 16 PF®Assessment

by Heather E.-P. Cattell and James M. Schuerger

Essentials of ADHD Assessment for Children and Adolescents

by Elizabeth P. Sparrow and Drew Erhardt

Essentials of Assessment Report Writing

by Elizabeth O. Lichtenberger, Nancy Mather, Nadeen L. Kaufman, and Alan S. Kaufman

Essentials of Assessment with Brief Intelligence Tests

by Susan R. Homack and Cecil R. Reynolds

Essentials of Autism Spectrum Disorders Evaluation and Assessment

by Celine A. Saulnier and Pamela E. Ventola

Essentials of Bayley Scales of Infant Development–II Assessment

by Maureen M. Black and Kathleen Matula

Essentials of Behavioral Assessment

by Michael C. Ramsay, Cecil R. Reynolds, and R. W. Kamphaus

Essentials of Career Interest Assessment

by Jeffrey P. Prince and Lisa J. Heiser

Essentials of CAS Assessment

by Jack A. Naglieri

Essentials of Cognitive Assessment with KAIT and Other Kaufman Measures

by Elizabeth O. Lichtenberger, Debra Broadbooks, and Alan S. Kaufman

Essentials of Conners Behavior Assessments™

by Elizabeth P. Sparrow

Essentials of Creativity Assessment

by James C. Kaufman, Jonathan A. Plucker, and John Baer

Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment, Third Edition

by Dawn P. Flanagan, Samuel O. Ortiz, and Vincent C. Alfonso

Essentials of DAS-II®Assessment

by Ron Dumont, John O. Willis, and Colin D. Elliot

Essentials of Dyslexia Assessment and Intervention

by Nancy Mather and Barbara J. Wendling

Essentials of Evidence-Based Academic Interventions

by Barbara J. Wendling and Nancy Mather

Essentials of Executive Functions Assessment

by George McCloskey and Lisa A. Perkins

Essentials of Forensic Psychological Assessment, Second Edition

by Marc J. Ackerman

Essentials of IDEA for Assessment Professionals

by Guy McBride, Ron Dumont, and John O. Willis

Essentials of Individual Achievement Assessment

by Douglas K. Smith

Essentials of KABC-II Assessment

by Alan S. Kaufman, Elizabeth O. Lichtenberger, Elaine Fletcher-Janzen, and Nadeen L. Kaufman

Essentials of Millon™ Inventories Assessment, Third Edition

by Stephen Strack

Essentials of MMPI-A™ Assessment

by Robert P. Archer and Radhika Krishnamurthy

Essentials of MMPI-2®Assessment, Second Edition

by David S. Nichols

Essentials of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®Assessment, Second Edition

by Naomi Quenk

Essentials of NEPSY®-II Assessment

by Sally L. Kemp and Marit Korkman

Essentials of Neuropsychological Assessment, Second Edition

by Nancy Hebben and William Milberg

Essentials of Nonverbal Assessment

by Steve McCallum, Bruce Bracken, and John Wasserman

Essentials of PAI®Assessment

by Leslie C. Morey

Essentials of Planning, Selecting, and Tailoring Interventions for Unique Learners

edited by Jennifer T. Mascolo, Vincent C. Alfonso, and Dawn P. Flanagan

Essentials of Processing Assessment, Second Edition

by Milton J. Dehn

Essentials of Response to Intervention

by Amanda M. VanDerHeyden and Matthew K. Burns

Essentials of Rorschach®Assessment

by Tara Rose, Nancy Kaser-Boyd, and Michael P. Maloney

Essentials of School Neuropsychological Assessment, Second Edition

by Daniel C. Miller

Essentials of Specific Learning Disability Identification

by Dawn Flanagan and Vincent C. Alfonso

Essentials of Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales (SB5) Assessment

by Gale H. Roid and R. Andrew Barram

Essentials of TAT and Other Storytelling Assessments, Second Edition

by Hedwig Teglasi

Essentials of Temperament Assessment

by Diana Joyce

Essentials of WAIS®-IV Assessment, Second Edition

by Elizabeth O. Lichtenberger and Alan S. Kaufman

Essentials of WIAT®-III and KTEA-II Assessment

by Elizabeth O. Lichtenberger and Kristina C. Breaux

Essentials of WISC®-IV Assessment, Second Edition

by Dawn P. Flanagan and Alan S. Kaufman

Essentials of WJ III™ Cognitive Abilities Assessment, Second Edition

by Fredrick A. Schrank, Daniel C. Miller, Barbara J. Wendling, and Richard W. Woodcock

Essentials of WJ IV™ Tests of Achievement Assessment

by Nancy Mather and Barbara J. Wendling

Essentials of WMS®-IV Assessment

by Lisa Whipple Drozdick, James A. Holdnack, and Robin C. Hilsabeck

Essentials of WNV™ Assessment

by Kimberly A. Brunnert, Jack A. Naglieri, and Steven T. Hardy-Braz

Essentials of WPPSI™-IV Assessment

by Susan Engi Raiford and Diane Coalson

Essentials of WRAML2 and TOMAL-2 Assessment

by Wayne Adams and Cecil R. Reynolds

Essentials of Gifted Assessment

Steven I. Pfeiffer

Cover image: Wiley

Cover design: © Greg Kuchik/Getty Images

This book is printed on acid-free paper.

Copyright © 2015 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.

Published simultaneously in Canada.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, [phone], fax [phone], or on the web at www.copyright.com. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, [phone], fax [phone].

Limit of Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty: While the publisher and author have used their best efforts in preparing this book, they make no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this book and specifically disclaim any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. No warranty may be created or extended by sales representatives or written sales materials. The advice and strategies contained herein may not be suitable for your situation. You should consult with a professional where appropriate. Neither the publisher nor author shall be liable for any loss of profit or any other commercial damages, including but not limited to special, incidental, consequential, or other damages.

This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering professional services. If legal, accounting, medical, psychological or any other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional person should be sought.

Designations used by companies to distinguish their products are often claimed as trademarks. In all instances where John Wiley & Sons, Inc. is aware of a claim, the product names appear in initial capital or all capital letters. Readers, however, should contact the appropriate companies for more complete information regarding trademarks and registration.

For general information on our other products and services please contact our Customer Care Department within the United States at [phone], outside the United States at [phone] or fax [phone].

Wiley publishes in a variety of print and electronic formats and by print-on-demand. Some material included with standard print versions of this book may not be included in e-books or in print-on-demand. If this book refers to media such as a CD or DVD that is not included in the version you purchased, you may download this material at http://booksupport.wiley.com. For more information about Wiley products, visit www.wiley.com.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for and is on file with the Library of Congress.

ISBN 978-1-118-58920-5 (paper); ISBN 978-1-118-70564-3 (ePDF); ISBN 978-1-118-87316-8 (ePub)

Series Preface

In the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, we have attempted to provide the reader with books that will deliver key practical information in the most efficient and accessible style. Many books in the series feature specific instruments in a variety of domains, such as cognition, personality, education, and neuropsychology. Other books, like Essentials of Gifted Assessment, focus on crucial topics for professionals who are involved in any way with assessment—topics such as specific reading disabilities, evidence-based interventions, or ADHD assessment. For the experienced professional, books in the series offer a concise yet thorough review of a test instrument or a specific area of expertise, including numerous tips for best practices. Students can turn to series books for clear and concise overviews of the important assessment tools and key topics in which they must become proficient to practice skillfully, efficiently, and ethically in their chosen fields.

Wherever feasible, visual cues highlighting key points are utilized alongside systematic, step-by-step guidelines. Chapters are focused and succinct. Topics are organized for an easy understanding of the essential material related to a particular test or topic. Theory and research are continually woven into the fabric of each book, but always so as to enhance the practical application of the material rather than to sidetrack or overwhelm readers. With this series, we aim to challenge and assist readers interested in psychological assessment to aspire to the highest level of competency by arming them with the tools they need for knowledgeable, informed practice. We have long been advocates of intelligent testing—which incorporates the notion that numbers are meaningless unless they are brought to life by the clinical acumen and expertise of examiners. Assessment must be used to make a difference in the child's or adult's life, or why bother to test? All the books in this series—whether devoted to specific tests or general topics—are consistent with this credo. We want this series to help our readers, novice and veteran alike, to benefit from the intelligent assessment approaches of the authors of each book.

We are delighted to include Essentials of Gifted Assessment in our series. Dr. Steven Pfeiffer is, in our opinion, among the small group of the world's leading experts in the field. He is an unusually articulate spokesperson on the varied topics that make up the broad domain of gifted education and gifted assessment. Essentials of Gifted Assessment introduces the theory and practice underlying gifted assessment within the context of the history that produced this important field. This book provides an overview of who the gifted are, the reasons why we should identify gifted students, and the purposes of gifted assessment. Key principles of gifted assessment are discussed and an up-to-date overview on gifted assessment measures is provided. Topics include the use of local norms, measuring creativity and motivation, nonverbal measures, the importance of recurring gifted assessment, multipotentiality, gifted testing and minority group students, and evaluating the twice-exceptional student. This book provides practitioners with the tools needed for ethical, evidence-based, and informed clinical practice with high-ability students.

Alan S. Kaufman, PhD, and Nadeen L. Kaufman, EdD

Series Editors

Yale Child Study Center

Yale University School of Medicine

Acknowledgments

Iwant to thank Alan Kaufman and Nadeen Kaufman, editors of the Essentials of Psychological Assessment Series, for inviting me to write this book. It has been a great intellectual pleasure. Having spent a long and very satisfying professional career working with high-ability students—beginning with my dissertation on creativity, followed by my work at Duke University and later at Florida State University as an administrator, clinician, consultant, and researcher—it has been extremely gratifying writing this book as part of the Wiley assessment series.

I gratefully acknowledge the many high-ability students and also parents, psychologists, and educators that I had the privilege of working with and learning from during my tenure as executive director of the Duke University Talent Identification Program and later, as professor and director of clinical training at Florida State University and codirector of the Florida Governor's School for Space Science and Technology. I appreciate, value, and hold in reverence the many lessons learned from the extremely bright students whom I have worked with over the past thirty-five years. I owe special thanks to Professor James Gallagher for sparking my initial interest in the gifted and serving as an early mentor and role model while I was still a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. It saddened me to learn, as I was writing this book, that Jim had passed away. I had looked forward to sharing a draft and inviting his feedback.

Others who have inspired my thinking about gifted assessment and who deserve mention for ideas that appear in this volume include Professor Michael Wallach (the importance of “what we measure”), Professor Louis Hsu (“respecting psychometrics”), clinical psychologist Andy Burka (“appreciating and searching for the uniqueness in every client”), test author Jack Naglieri (my mentor early in my career in “test development 101”), and Dr. Maureen Neihart (National Institute of Education, Singapore) and Dr. Pauline Dixon (Newcastle University, England) for helping me experience firsthand the “impact of culture.” Special thanks are due to Susie Raiford at Pearson Assessment for her invaluable input into the new WISC-V. Finally, thanks to Elspeth MacHattie for her exquisitely valuable editing and to Emilee Valler, one of my doctoral students, for her dogged sleuth work in locating missing references and citations.

I continue to appreciate and respect the support of my wife, Jan, who graciously permitted me many evenings and weekends away from bike rides, tennis games, and trail runs to write this book.

I dedicate this book, as I did my last book, Serving the Gifted,1 to practitioners who hold an interest in identifying and working with students of high ability. For far too long, school psychologists and other professionals working in the schools have focused the great majority of their time, effort, and creative resources on those students who fall at the lower end of the ability continuum. I hope that Essentials of Gifted Assessment helps to focus greater attention on the identification and assessment needs of students of uncommon ability and high potential. I also hope that this volume contributes in some meaningful way to best practices in gifted assessment. One final point: this book isn't about assessing intelligence. It is about the theory and practice underlying assessing giftedness.

Note

1.

Serving the Gifted

was published in 2013 by Routledge in its School-Based Practice in Action Series.