I'm wondering if giftedness can be identified on the basis of I-ready tests. My 8th grade daughter (13) has always scored very highly on those tests. She just got a 725 on her I-Ready Reading test, where the 99th percentile is 696. Doing the math, and assuming a bell curve distribution of scores, that would put her above the 99.95th percentile. She reads voraciously, constantly, and has always read stuff well above her age-level (eg. finishing the whole Harry Potter series at 6, and reading "Little Women" and Shirley Jackson at 7). He score in math is not as high, but is also above the 99th percentile. She's always gone to public schools in a poor inner city neighborhood, in which the teaching is abysmal and the classroom environment is completely chaotic, and we've never hot-housed her at home, apart from buying her books (which, at her rate of reading--2-3 each week--has been expensive). Anyway, can her I'Ready scores plus teacher assessments be sufficient to get her a gifted designation?
