Dottie,
I do think that it's good to look at having the test that screens for the gifted program actually match the individual gifted programing.
I wonder how often a child would come up with score that are so unusually skewed.
Also, I'm all in favor of there being a process of thoughful people who look at the whole picture and think well about the child, but I guess I'm a bit hopeless that that well ever happen widely.
In my ideal world, there will be a wide variety of 'gifted options' from the 2 hour/week pull out, to subject and grade skipping, to self contained classrooms for HG, self contained classrooms for PG, self contained classrooms for 2E, cyber ed in school or at home, independent study, mentorship. Because each child IS individual, and has individual needs and circumstances, that change over time.
I just would hate to see a kid with a 129 Full scale, but VIQ or PIQ well into the 130s or 140s gatekepted out of a gifted program that might do them a world of good. ((For the record, I also worry about the gifted program being so watered down that it serves fewer and fewer kids at the higher end.))
I agree that your example is a strong case for the 'VIQ OR PIQ' plan being open to mistakes, but my point is that if I understand the lecturer corectly, this is what the publisher of the test has decided is the way to interpret their test. They get to make the rules, and I think that a lot of Gifted 2E kids would benifit if the rules are widely known. KWIM?
Love and More Love,
Grinity
