Identifying Gifted Students: A Practical Guide
As editor, Susan Johnsen offers a book that is both practical and informative. Designed for professionals working with the gifted and talented, her book seeks to meet the informational needs of teachers of the gifted, school administrators, psychologists, and psychometrists. Readers will find chapters that cover the gamut of gifted education basics and extend beyond to offer guidance to decision-makers seeking to identify these children for services.Identifying Gifted Students: A Practical Guideis a brief, yet thorough, overview of issues surrounding the identification of gifted students. The book lives up to its title in that educators can turn to it as an authoritative reference in matters of assessing students and count on receiving practical and easy-to-implement solutions for their assessment needs. --Sandee Manning, Ph.D.,Gifted Education Communicator: A Journal for Educators and Parents, Spring 2005