Originally Posted by ultramarina
Third grade would have been too late for both of my kids. But I definitely have seen some kids who were difficult to pinpoint as gifted in k/1 but look gifted to me now. On the flip side, I know some kids who tested gifted in K who do NOT appear gifted to me at the present time. I think this is really a hard question.

One of my "things" with giftedness, though, is that I would like to see all students screened.

I agree with screening all kids. Maybe some internet billionaire could be recruited to fund a pilot project in a school district to screen all kids at age 4 and 6 or something like that. I don't know if there is an instrument that is cheaper to administer than the full WPPSI-IV (which cost of the better part of $1k to do - totally worth it by the way).