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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Teacher recommendations also are unreliable. In general, teachers are not adequately trained to recognize gifted students and have many biases. It's just as likely a teacher does not realize a child is gifted as does recognize[/quote]

So you see no value in a teacher's recommendations? Sometimes teachers see things parents don't. At least at our elementary school, we've known several kids who only took the test because the teachers recommended to the parents that they be tested. And almost always those kids got in... And of course recommendations are subjective, because every teacher and every student is different. But together -- the test score and the recommendation -- paint at least a decent picture of the kid's readiness. The same can be said about parents. Many parents assume their kids are gifted, while others don't have a sense of just how gifted their kid is -- without a teacher pointing it out to them.[/quote]

Just give everyone the test and grab the highest scoring ones.  I have no real confidence in teachers identifying gifted kids in 3rd grade.[/quote]

But what happens when several kids have the same scores.  This happens in higher ed.  When I review applications for grad school students we often have to consider other items beyond test scores and GPA because often there are several students with very close or similar scores.  We have to consider recommendations and essays as the deciding factor.[/quote]

I think there should be a cut score and everyone over gets in.  Might need to juggle classes some, but it would be manageable.  The grad school analogy is a bit strained, not sure how much of a CV you can build by 3rd grade ;). [/quote]

But what is a kid has a bad testing day?[/quote]

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