1. How Do We Identify Students
for the Gifted and Talented
Program?

2. What is gifted a child?
• A gifted and/or talented child according to 704
KAR 3:285 is defined as a category of
“exceptional students” who are identified as
possessing demonstrated or potential ability to
perform at an exceptional high level in five
• categories.

3. What are the five categories?
• Intellectual aptitude
• Specific academic aptitude
• Creative or divergent thinking
• Psychosocial or leadership skills
• Visual or performing arts

4. What are ways we can identify children in
general intellectual aptitude in Kentucky?
• Intellectually Ability Test– Student must
score in 9th stanine.
• Teacher Recommendations
• Parent Surveys
• Checklist inventories
• Continuous progress data
• Informal Assessment

5. • Nominations-Self or • High performance on
peer intellectual
• Primary review assessment
committee • Nominations-peer
recommendation • Observation of
• Behavioral checklist applied advanced
inventories reasoning ability
• Collection of evidence
from portfolios

6. • Referrals/Recommendations
Parents
• Observation of applied
reasoning ability
• Student awards or critiques

7. How are children identified in
specific academic aptitude?
• Anecdotal records
• Checklist inventories
• Ninth stanine on one
subject test area
(language arts, math
science, social
studies) of a normed
reference achievement
test
• Formal testing data

8. • Informal assessments
• Nominations-Self or
Petition
• Portfolio of high
academic
performance
• Referrals/Recommen
dations-Parent
• Student awards or
critiques

9. Psychosocial or Leadership
• Behavioral
Observations
• Checklist inventories
• Continuous progress
data
• Nominations-peer
• Referrals
recommendations from
teachers

10. • Student awards • Sociograms
• Documentation of • Formal Testing
student leadership in
class or school
activities
• Peer nomination
• Referrals from the
parents
• Informal testing

11. Visual or performing arts
• Auditions
• Checklist of behaviors
specific to gifted category
• Portfolio of visual or
performing arts ability
• Questionnaires
• Referrals/Recommendations-
Teacher
• Awards or critiques of
performance

12. • Letters of
recommendations
• Portfolio assessment
by specialists or
professional artists
• Products (paper,
video, audio, pictures
• Referrals/Recommen
dations-Parent
• Nominations-Self or
Petition