"These tests are most reliable at scoring average children or determining whether a child falls somewhere outside of average, but they're not intended to assess various levels of extreme giftedness," Sidney Moon, a gifted-psychology expert at Purdue, said.
The designation of giftedness is largely a matter of administrative convenience.
Tests vary widely in their validity and reliability for different ages and cultures; therefore, fair identification procedures always take into account a wide variety of behaviours that may be signs of giftedness.
Increasingly, however, schools use multiple measures of giftedness and assess a wide variety of talents, including verbal, mathematical, spatial-visual, musical, and interpersonal abilities.
Yet Secrest uses it to focus the reader on Modigliani's giftedness — he did draw and paint truly well, within his range — and, along the way, to drop hints of his relationships with his sitters, models, friends, and lovers, amid the avant-garde in Montmartre and Montparnasse.
He has in common with them an extravagant giftedness.
It was almost a physical thing — you couldn't separate out the music and the giftedness and the youth.
Mr. Klein added, "Our highest priority is to ensure that we continue to have a rigorous citywide test that identifies only those qualities of giftedness in children".
The city was praised for using multiple criteria to assess giftedness, in keeping with national recommended practice for gifted assessment.
He said the goal of the new assessments was not to reduce the number of eligible students, but to do "a better job of identifying kids' giftedness without respect to whether they had prior academic preparation".
It should not be considered more unfair than any genetic giftedness of any other athlete".
