Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment Using the IAS for a second skip

Has anyone used the IAS to evaluate a 2nd grade skip for their dc? Are the criteria and scoring the same as a for the first skip? Thanks.

The criteria are pretty much the same, though you may have to adjust comparisons against age peers to comparisons against grade peers due to the wording. A previous grade skip is an indicator of acceleration being appropriate.

We used the IAS in both of my daughter's skips (in two different school systems). The criteria and scoring are the exact same. If anything, the second can be easier because you'll likely have a larger body of evidence to look at; you'll be more experienced in the process; and, assuming the first was a success, you can say that it already worked once.

Depending on your child and when the first skip occurred, a need for a second skip should not be that surprising. If your kid can cover 4 years of material in 3 (or 3 in 2), then you'll easily be looking at two skips.

-S.F.