National Center for Research on Gifted Education

Gifted classes may not help talented students move ahead faster Survey finds most gifted education curriculum emphasize developing "creativity" and "critical thinking" instead of acceleration above grade level

Dr. Rashea Hamilton presented today at on behalf of the NCRGE team.

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Publications | National Center for Research on Gifted Education Exploratory Study on the Identification of English Learners for Gifted and Talented Programs 2018 Publication of the National Center for Research on Gifted Education E. Jean Gubbins, Del Siegle, Rashea Hamilton, Pamela Peters, Ashley Y. Carpenter, Patricia O'Rourke, Jeb Puryear, D. Betsy Mc ...

Gifted and talented diversification reaches for full potential Five years ago, the lack of diversification in the gifted and talented program in Mankato Area Public Schools reflected a nationwide problem.

Check out this recent EdWeek article featuring NCRGE's EL study!

Four Steps Schools Should Take to Identify Gifted English-Learners Researchers from the National Center for Research on Gifted Education visited elementary and middle schools in three states to study schools that had "exemplary" track records in spotting academically talented ELLs. Nationally, only 2 percent of English-learners are enrolled in gifted and talented p...

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Now available: 15 Tips for Improving Identification of Gifted EL Students. Get the one-page PDF or tri-fold brochure, or download the full NCRGE EL Report and comprehensive literature review!

15 Tips for Improving Identification of Gifted EL Students | National Center for Research on Gifted Education Adopt Universal Screening Procedures 1. Adopt a policy of universal screening of all students in one or more grade levels for the identification pro...

Dr. Betsy McCoach sharing some of the current NCRGE research at AERA.

Del Siegle was interviewed about how the NCRGE research relates to this issue. Check it out.

Income, race big factors in rates of gifted students here, across U.S. Nearly one of every two students in Grandview Heights schools has been identified as gifted — either overall or in a subject area —

Check out a recent radio appearance by Dr. Betsy McCoach in which she discusses some of the NCRGE team's recent work showing that students in poverty are less likely to be identified gifted.

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A paper on the recognition of giftedness by UConn Neag School of Education researchers is quoted by Thomas B. Fordham Institute, which found that school poverty has a negative relationship with the percentage of students identified as gifted.
https://edexcellence.net/articles/more-evidence-that-poverty-obscures-schools-recognition-of-giftedness

NCRGE researchers have published the first study to demonstrate a link between student poverty, institutional poverty, and the lower identification rate of gifted low-income students.

The study, “Disentangling the Roles of Institutional and Individual Poverty in the Identification of Gifted Students,” was published in the journal Gifted Child Quarterly. Researchers found that students eligible for free or reduced lunch programs are less likely to be identified for gifted education services even after controlling for prior math and reading achievement scores. In addition, the findings indicated that students in low-income schools have a further reduced possibility of being identified for gifted services.

Disentangling the Roles of Institutional and Individual Poverty in the Identification of Gifted Students - Rashea Hamilton, D. Betsy McCoach, M. Shane Tutwiler, Del Siegle, E. Jean Gubbins, Carolyn M. Callahan, Annalissa V. Brodersen, Rachel U.... Although the relationships between family income and student identification for gifted programming are well documented, less is known about how school and distr...