These types of checklists are so subjective that I really hate their use in GT identifications. Yes, some or many of these characteristics may be common in gifted children, but some or many of them may also exist in children who are not gifted and they are subject to the interpretation of the person filling out the scale -- parent or teacher.
If the teacher (or parent) is told that these characteristics are common amongst gifted kids and then asked to indicate if they are notable in a specific child, the teacher (or parent) is more or less likely to believe that this child does or does not exhibit these characteristics based upon his/her opinion of whether this child is gifted. If the teacher doesn't see "gifted" in the kid, s/he isn't going to see these characteristics either. If the teacher is misidentifying high achievement as giftedness, s/he is likely to also mistakenly state that the child shows characteristics that he does not.
I, too, have a child with HG+ IQ scores (and individual achievement scores) for whom it took a major fight to get any type of GT id b/c she is 2e and didn't fit the profile of what most teachers saw as gifted.
Have you managed to talk to the district coordinator or anyone else to see if there is a way around this subjective scale keeping your dd out of the GT program?
