S5.6.2 Performance Based Assessments to Identify Gifted and Talented Students

Four researchers and practitioners who have developed and studied performance assessments, their usefulness, and their results for identifying gifted students and identifying the strengths of all children will present examples of performance assessments of 10 different abilities. These abilities include STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), other academic areas such as oral and written language (administered bilingually in the children’s home language and English), leadership (social, emotional, and ethical), and the creative arts (visual, bodily, and auditory). The presenters will include the results of their research on the reliability, validity, and stability of scores across several years. They will also present cross-cultural comparisons of the strengths of the students assessed.

Author(s):

Ketty Sarouphim-McGill
ksarufim@lau.edu.lb
Lebanese American University
Lebanon

Ketty Sarouphim-McGill, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Psychology and Education at the Lebanese American University. She has researched performance-based assessments and programs for gifted students for many years, and is an expert in test development and evaluation. She has presented her work at international conferences and has published several articles in refereed academic journals.

Abdulnasser AlHussaini
aalhusaini@msn.com
Jeddah University
Saudi Arabia

Abdulnasser A. Alhusaini is Assistant Professor of Special Education at the University of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona. He has received numerous awards, and has published books, teachers’ manuals, and peer-reviewed articles in the field of giftedness and creativity.

C. June Maker
junemaker@hotmail.com
University of Arizona
United States

C. June Maker, PhD, is Professor Emerita, University of Arizona. She is associate editor for Gifted and Talented International and International Journal of Research in Education, Editorial Board member for the Gifted Child Quarterly, Advisory Board member of the Bulletin of Special Education (BSE), and editorial board member for other international journals. In 2015, she received the International Research Award from WCGTS and Doctor of Letters Degree from Western Kentucky University. Her research is on performance-based assessments and creativity development. She is a frequent keynote speaker. The website for her project, DISCOVER, is www.discover.arizona.edu, and her email is junemaker@hotmail.com.

Randal Pease
pease_schoolstuff@hotmail.com
University of Arizona
United States

Randy Pease is co-director of a research and development project for identifying gifted preschool and primary students in the United Arab Emirates and a teacher educator with the Cultivating Diverse Talent in STEM project funded by the National Science Foundation at the University of Arizona, developing assessments and programs for identifying and serving students with exceptional talent in stem from underserved groups. He has taught children of all ages in general education classrooms, taught in self-contained classes for gifted students; has been a curriculum supervisor, a coordinator of programs for gifted students, and a teacher educator with the DISCOVER Projects.