Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment What made you decide to test child?

We tested for admission to a program which required it.

I would not test a four year old unless it's required for entry into something. They are so young, it's just not accurate/stable.

We had great success with 100% play based preschools because you can make a sand table as complicated and intellectually demanding as you like, but you can't make tracing the alphabet any more than tracing the alphabet. Most (but not all) of the preschool teachers in the play based preschools were very good at asking interesting open-ended questions to encourage exploration, and each child could take that question as far as was appropriate for them that day IYKWIM.