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According to our state department of education website, "a student may be determined automomatically eligible for gifted services when the obtained full scale/composite IQ score on an individually administered test of intelligence (NOT as screener) is two standard deviations above the mean or higher, or the Verbal Average Standard Score or Figural Creativity index of the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking is at or above the 97th national percentile."
From our school district website:
XXXX County conducts a child find activity in which every second grader is observed to determine if he/she needs to be referred for screening. The ACE teachers go into the classrooms and provide a series of products used to evaluate students. These products consist of draw starts, problem solving, patterns, analogies, and writing samples. This evaluation process begins in the month of August and continues through January. When the evaluation process is complete, the students who fall in the top 2% will be screened and formally tested. Grades are not used when determining who will be formally screened. A notification form will be sent to parents providing �Permission to Screen.� If parents of 2nd graders do not receive this notification, then the process has ended and their child will not receive any additional testing.
Jai, have you considered asking your school district which individually administered tests of intelligence are recognized for admission to the gifted program? The info you've quoted above doesn't specific that; and I'm suggesting asking only because our school district has a definite preference for which tests they will/won't accept. In general, they prefer to administer the tests themselves, but they will accept outside testing... but it's been our experience that advocating is much easier if that outside test is one of the same tests the school district uses.
Best wishes,
polarbear
