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You are misreading the research again.[/quote]

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DP: as to #1, these DCPS kids are tested out the wazoo from 2nd grade forward. Their teachers have so much detailed data on every strand of math and ELA capabilities for these kids that it is ridiculous to think they'd need more to know how to place them. Literally years of data on each kid, which is way better than a single teacher subjectively choosing which is kids should take a single GT test and placement flows from that one test.[/quote]

Schools that have GT/Academically advanced programs give them intelligence tests (e.g. COGAT or WISC), not just achievement tests. The point isn't to select based on knowledge but to find the kids who are really intelligent but may or may not have demonstrated it so far. In fact, when identification is done this way, many ELL students and students with disabilities test as gifted.

But, for all the testing DCPS does, it is limited to achievement testing. [/quote]

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