|
#{letters} |
On Twitter, a Hashtag |
|
#gtchat |
On Twitter, a interactive chat on a variety gifted topics that meets for 1
hour twice each Friday, compliments of
Ingeniosus. For more on social networking groups, visit
Gifted Online Communities |
|
143 |
Shorthand for "I Love You"... I (1 letter) Love (4 letters) You (3 letters) |
|
2E |
See Twice Exceptional
in this list |
|
504 Plan |
Disability accommodation plan conferred to individuals under Section 504 of
the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, see Twice Exceptional
in this list or Twice Exceptional page,
particularly Key
Differences Between Section 504, the ADA, and the IDEA |
|
Above-level testing |
See Out-of-level testing
in this list |
| Acceleration |
Students study material that is part of the normal
curriculum for older students. Acceleration is not just skipping grades;
there are as many as 16 different forms of Acceleration, including subject
and grade acceleration, early entrance, telescoping, and more. See Academic
Acceleration |
| Achievement Test |
Test designed to measure achievement in specific subject
areas. Though an achievement test may give standard scores, these are
not comparable to IQ scores. May be group or individual tests; group
tests only offer information about the specific group or grade being tested,
while individual tests offer information no matter how far the individual
being tested is from the norm for the group / grade. See
Testing and Assessment |
| ACT |
American College Test, designed to assess high school students' general
educational development and their ability to complete college-level work.
Covers four skill areas: English, mathematics, reading, and science
reasoning. Some Talent Search programs use the ACT as an out-of-level
achievement test for gifted 7th graders. Visit
ACT Program |
| AD/HD |
Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder. This is
often diagnosed instead of giftedness, in gifted children who cannot sit
still when they are bored in school. More recently, there has been a
swing in the opposite direction, where gifted children who are ADHD are not
diagnosed since they are gifted. See Gifted and
AD/HD |
| Age-equivalent score (AE) |
Seen most often on individual achievement tests. An average child of
the age specified would score the same as your child. See
What Do the Tests Tell Us? |
|
AoPS |
Art of Problem Solving, a distance education math program. See
Distance Learning Programs |
| AP or Advanced Placement |
College-level courses for high school students. These
courses are not always as hard, or as easy, as similarly named college
courses, depending on the college. They are not always accepting for
college credit, depending on the college, and if the AP course is in the
student's college major. Some colleges that do not accept AP courses
for credit, will accept them for advanced placement into college courses, if
the AP courses are not in the student's major. Visit
AP Central |
|
APD |
Auditory Processing Disorder, previously known
as CAPD - Central Auditory Processing Disorder. Words / sounds
are not processed in the expected / traditional way, creating a disability. See Auditory Processing Disorder (APD /
CAPD) |
| AS or Aspie |
Asperger's
Syndrome, or just Aspergers. New in 2014, Aspergers is no longer a diagnosis
per the
Diagnostics and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-V).
Future Asperger's Syndrome diagnoses may be identified as HFA (High
Functioning Autism) or PDD-NOS (Pervasive Developmental Delay - Not
Otherwise Specified). See Asperger's Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism
for more, no matter what you call it. |
|
AYP |
Adequate Yearly Progress. NCLB term. Specifies minimum progress for grade level students during school year,
based on grade level academic standards. Currently does NOT mention
progress for students already exceeding grade level academic standards
before the school year begins. |
|
BFF |
Best Friend Forever. It's the peer that gifted kids crave, the friend
for ALL things academic, social and more. And it's the same-sex peer
that gifted adults still need, in my opinion. See
Social / Emotional Aspects of Giftedness |
| BIQ |
Beyond IQ conferences. Series of conferences held each year
across the country, for hg/eg/pg families and professionals. See
Gifted Conferences for a list of all gifted
conferences, or visit
Gifted Conference Planners for Beyond IQ specifics |
|
Blog |
Short for weblog. A blog is a journal that is frequently
updated, reflects the personality and opinions of the author, and is
intended for general public consumption. See
Gifted Mailing Lists, Message Boards, Blogs
for a list of many gifted resources... |
|
BRB |
Be Right Back (more common in Instant Messaging than e-mail) |
| BS |
no, it doesn't mean that! It means Beloved Spouse... a
Cathy-ism |
BTDT
GtTS and WIO |
Been
There, Done That, and it's corollaries, Got the T-Shirt and Wore It Out! |
| BTW |
By
The Way... |
|
CAPD |
Central Auditory Processing Disorder, see
APD in this list, and
Auditory Processing Disorder (APD / CAPD) |
| CBA |
Curriculum Based Assessment. See
Why Should I Have My Child Tested? |
|
CBT |
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. A psychotherapy based on cognitions,
assumptions, beliefs, and behaviors, with the aim of influencing disturbed
emotions. See
Wikipedia... |
| CC |
Community College. In America, community college is a two-year program
resulting in an associates degree. Many gifted student take CC courses
long before college, and use them for high school credit instead. (Or
means communication is copied, followed by the party it is copied to...) |
| Charter
school |
Nonsectarian US public schools of choice
that operate with freedom from many of the regulations that apply to
traditional public schools. The "charter" establishing each such school is a
performance contract detailing the school's mission, program, goals,
students served, methods of assessment, and ways to measure success.
Visit US Charter Schools for
more information |
|
Chat-Speak |
text abbreviations used online and in text messages, such as BRB, BTDT, BTW,
LOL, TTYL, etc. defined elsewhere on this page. Read the L.A. Times
story
Language that makes you say OMG |
|
CHC |
Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory of intelligence. The theory that the
Woodcook-Johnson Cognitive test is based on. See
Institute for Applied Psychometrics (IAP)
for more... |
| chronological age (CA) |
age of child |
|
Cluster Grouping |
Similar ability students in a grade are grouped together in
a single class, to allow social and academic interaction between peers.
These groups are flexible, allowing students to join or leave, by subject or
school year. This differentiates cluster grouping from tracking.
See Grouping Gifted Children |
|
Compacting |
Instruction entails reduced amounts of introductory activities, drill, and
practice. Instructional experiences may also be based on relatively fewer
instructional objectives compared to the general curriculum. The time gained
may be used for more advanced content instruction or to participate in
enrichment activities. Instructional goals should be selected on the basis
of careful analyses for their roles in the content and hierarchies of
curricula. The parsing of activities and goals should be based on
pre-instructional assessment. See Curriculum
Modifications. Definition from A
Nation Deceived, volume 2, page 14. |
| Correspondence Courses |
School classes offered by correspondence, often for
geographical reasons, but with gifted students may also be for acceleration
reasons. See Distance Learning
Programs |
|
confidence interval |
a common use of the standard measure of error (SEM).
To select students with a specific score within a 68% confidence interval,
one must include all students who score more than the desired score minus
the SEM for the test. To select students within a 90% confidence
interval, one must include all students who score more than the desired
score minus 1.65 times the SEM for the test. This means when using
screening tests to screen for giftedness with 68% confidence, the school
must look at all students scoring 130 minus the SEM for the screening
measure, or for 90% confidence, all students scoring 130 minus 1.65 times
the SEM. |
| CST |
Child Study Team, often used by public schools with twice
exceptional or LD children |
|
CTD |
Northwestern's Center for Talent Development, including a summer talent search
program, and LetterLinks, a Distance Learning program. See
Talent Search and
Distance Learning Programs |
|
CTY |
Johns Hopkins Center
for Talented Youth. Programs include Talent Search summer program
for grades 2-10, full academic assessment services, and writing and math
distance education program. See also Talent
Search |
| Dabrowski's |
Dabrowski's Over Excitabilities. Extreme sensitivities
in one or more arenas. See Dabrowski and
Sensitivities |
| DAS |
Differential Abilities Scales. A fairly new (1989) IQ
test, said to be a good option for visual / spatial and twice exceptional
gifted children. See Testing and Assessment |
| Davidson Young Scholars |
Program to support 4-16 year old profoundly gifted children. Visit Davidson Young
Scholars |
DD / DS /
DH / DW
also
MIL / FIL |
Dear Daughter / Son / Husband / Wife, also Mother-in-Law,
Father-in-Law |
|
Differentiation |
Teaching something different than the curriculum taught to the rest of the
students. Differentiation may include enrichment, curriculum
compacting, subject acceleration, and more. Visit
Differentiation of Instruction |
|
DIKU? |
Do I Know yoU? |
| Distance Learning |
High-tech alternative to correspondence courses, these
classes are offered via satellite or internet. See
Distance Learning Programs |
| DITD |
Davidson Institute for Talent Development. Visit Davidson Young Scholars |
| DOVD |
Developmental Optometrist. This type of doctor
evaluates for potential vision therapy, for vision issues beyond simple
acuity, including eye tracking, teaming, visual / motor integration, and
more. See Professionals |
| DT - PI |
Diagnostic Testing followed by Prescribed Instruction. Read
Helping students learn only what they don't already know |
| Dual Enrollment |
Enrollment in
two levels of schooling simultaneously;
application of credits varies. Commonly used for high school students
who concurrently take college courses, for at least high school credit. |
|
Dually
Identified |
Identified as both Gifted and Learning Disabled. See Twice Exceptional
in this list |
|
Early Entrance |
Entrance to any program before the regularly scheduled time. This may
be entrance to Kindergarten at age 4 or 4.5, 1st grade at regular
kindergarten age 5, or entrance to any other school level or college early.
For the youngest level, visit
Early (or Late) Kindergarten; for older kids
visit Early College Entrance Programs |
EG / HG / PG
and MG
and xG |
Levels of giftedness. The most commonly used
definition is that Gifted is IQ 130 or higher. This is then divided
into Moderately (or Mildly) Gifted (MG), Highly Gifted (HG),
Exceptionally Gifted (EG), and Profoundly Gifted (PG). The IQ scores
associated with these levels varies, depending on the test and version used
for assessment. (XG
usually means any combination of above, or an unknown level of giftedness.)
But there are complications to this simple definition... see
Why Should I Have My Child Tested? and
What is Highly Gifted? Exceptionally Gifted? Profoundly Gifted? And What
Does It Mean? |
|
eIMACS |
interactive Institute for Mathematics & Computer Science. On-line
interactive mathematics and computer science curricula to talented middle
and high school school and undergraduate students. See
Distance Learning Programs |
| Enrichment |
students study additional material at the grade level they
have already mastered. Also known as MOTS (More Of The Same). Read
Horizontal "enrichment" vs. vertical "acceleration" |
| EPGY |
Educational Program for Gifted Youth. K-8 and advanced
math program, developed by Stanford. This program is currently
available through Stanford, and through Johns Hopkins as a part of its Math
Tutorials program. See On EPGY |
| ESL / ELL |
English, Second Language, also known as ELL (English
Language Learners), Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD), Limited English Proficient (LEP).
An underserved gifted population. See Gifted / ESL |
|
Explore |
Explore elementary talent search test, often given to
3rd-6th grade students as part of Talent Search
testing (American College Testing Program (ACT)) |
|
F2F |
Face to Face, as in meeting another person in person. A great idea,
when exercised carefully... |
|
Facebook |
Social networking site that offers many communities of parents and
professionals in gifted education. See
Gifted Online Communities for popular Facebook communities... |
|
Facelift |
To copy a post or link from another FaceBook member |
|
FB |
FaceBook, a popular social networking site |
|
FERPA |
Family Education Rights and Privacy Act. Federal law that says, among
other things, that parents are entitled to copies of children's educational
testing results, including IQ test results. See
Gifted Advocacy |
|
Flame |
An insulting attack on an individual, usually delivered via e-mail. An
exchange of flames is referred to as a Flame War |
|
Flipped
Classroom |
Students learn at home via educational technology and online discussions,
then engage and interact with teachers and classmates at school. Excellent
InfoGraphic definition from Mind/Shift |
|
FOIA |
Freedom Of Information Act. See FERPA |
|
FYI |
For Your Information |
|
<g> |
Grin |
|
GAI |
Global Ability Index, an alternative calculation to the WISC-IV Full Scale
IQ score, that removes the Working Memory and Processing Speed scales from
the calculation, if they inaccurately lowered the Full Scale IQ score.
See An Inventory of Tests for the Wechsler
Intelligence Scales for Children, and click on Harcourt Assessment WISC-IV
Technical Report #4 General Ability Index for more details. This
calculation should be provided by your assessment professional, if
appropriate, but many psychologists are not aware of the publisher's updates
to their assessments |
| GATE |
Gifted And Talented Education. Gifted program name
used by some districts and some states, notably California |
| GDC |
The Gifted
Development Center, in Denver Colorado. A commonly recommended
center for assessment of gifted children |
| g,d,r |
grin, duck, and run... |
| GIEP / GEP |
Gifted Individual Education Plan / Gifted Education Plan. In some
states, gifted students receive GIEPs or GEPs. Check
Mandates for your state / province |
|
GMDE / GMDT |
Gifted Multi-Disciplinary Evaluation / Gifted Multi-Disciplinary Team (state
language for gifted students varies) |
|
GR8 |
Great! |
| Grade Acceleration |
Also called Grade skipping. Student takes entire grade level
with older students, and continues educational progress with that class.
This is a commonly used educational strategy for exceptionally and
profoundly gifted students. See Academic Acceleration |
| Grade-equivalent score (GE) |
Similar to age equivalent score. An average child of the
grade specified would score about the same as your child, had s/he taken the
same test. If this score is from an individual achievement test, it is a
fair comparison of this child to the average child in the specified grade.
If this score is from a group achievement test, however, it means only that
this child scored as well as a child of the specified grade, IF that child
had taken this child's grade level test; it does not predict how this child
would have scored on the specified grade level's achievement test. If the grade equivalent score is significantly above the current
grade on any achievement test, you might consider out-of-level testing to
get a better idea of the child's true level. See
What Do the Tests Tell Us? |
| GRC |
The Gifted Resource Center of
New England, in Rhode Island. A commonly recommended center for
assessment of twice exceptional gifted children |
| Grouping |
Temporary classroom groups of children by
ability for an individual subject, not to be confused with the more
permanent (and potentially detrimental) tracking. See
Grouping |
| GT or G/T |
Gifted and Talented |
| GT-Families / GT-Special |
Mailing lists for families of gifted students.
GT-Families is general information; GT-Special is for families of twice
exceptional gifted students. See Gifted
Online Communities |
|
#gtchat |
see # above... |
|
Hashtag |
On Twitter, a searchable term used to delimit communities of information.
#gtchat is the hashtag that indicates the weekly Ingeniousus gifted chats,
for example. Search on #gifted, #2e, #homeschool, and other terms to
find the gifted community on Twitter. Visit
What the Hashtag? to get search
results easily... |
|
HFA |
High Functioning Autism, the new name for Aspergers Disorder as of the new
psychological manual, DSM-V. Also sometimes identified as PDD/NOS. For more, visit
Asperger's Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism |
|
HT |
Hat Tip, a thanks to the person who originally posted the resource that's
being shared |
|
HTH |
Hope This Helps! |
| IAS
or Iowa |
 Iowa
Acceleration Scale. A survey (not a test) that takes into
consideration a child's existing test scores, plus many factors from size &
age to school and parent support for acceleration, and determines the
child's candidacy for full grade acceleration.
Iowa
Acceleration Scale Manual; A Guide for Whole-Grade Acceleration
Also read Hoagies' review... |
|
IDEA |
Individual with Disabilities Education Act. Federal special education
law, which also applies to Twice Exceptional
students |
|
IDK |
I Don't Know |
| IEP |
Individual Education Plan. Special Education students
in the United States are entitled to this personal learning plan for each
school year. In some states, gifted students are considered as special
education, and also receive IEPs. Check
Mandates for your state / province, and visit IEPs for
more information |
|
ILL |
Inter-Library Loan. Parents of gifted children will find their budget
appreciates this method of borrowing books not normally available at their
local library |
|
IM |
Instant Message - instant online communication, by one of the common
protocols, including AIM (AOL Instant Message), Yahoo, MSN Messenger, or the
older protocols IRC (Internet Relay Chat) or ICQ (play on words from "I Seek
You"). Many of these products can cause internet security issues on
your PC; consider using a safer product such as Trillian for all IM
communication. Visit PC Security for
more information... |
| IME |
In My Experience |
| IMO / IMHO |
In My
(Humble) Opinion (or IMNSHO... an opinion
that's Not So Humble!) |
| IQ or Intelligence Quotient |
Previously defined as the ratio of mental age to
chronological age (IQ=MA/CA*100), IQ is now "calculated" from statistical
deviation table. On the positive side, deviation IQ can be measured on more
than just children; on the negative, deviation tables often end abruptly,
causing low ceilings on many IQ tests |
| Intelligence Test |
Test designed to measure capability to learn, or
intelligence. May be group or individual tests; group tests tend to be
far less accurate, particularly for scores far from the norm (i.e. gifted or
low-end). See Testing and Assessment |
| IRL |
In Real Life... as in meeting in person. Cool! |
| IWALU |
I Will Always Love yoU |
| KIT |
Keep In Touch |
| LD |
Learning Disability / Learning Disabled. A blanket identifier for
individuals who have some sort of learning difference. See
Twice Exceptional |
|
LinkedIn |
Social networking site for professionals that includes many professionals in
gifted education |
| LMK |
Let Me Know |
| LOL |
Laughing Out Loud |
|
LTNS |
Long Time, No See |
| Magnet
School |
Public school program drawing from a wider geographical
area, often organized around a particular teaching philosophy or subject
area. Magnets may be available for Montessori, Performing Arts, or
Math/Science; some communities offer gifted magnet schools |
MBTI
(ISFP,
ENTJ, etc.) |
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
(Introvert-Sensing-Feeling-Perceiving or Extrovert-iNtuitive-Thinking-Judging,
etc.) - personality inventory, developed around the ideas and theories of
psychologist Carl Jung, a leading exponent of Gestalt personality
theory. See Personality Type |
| MDE / MDT |
Multi-Disciplinary Evaluation / Multi-Disciplinary Team.
Complete evaluation, prior to writing an IEP, and the team collected to
complete the assessment |
| MI |
Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences theory. Visit
Educational Theories. Gardner states MI is not gifted
education theory, but educators often mistake it for gifted education theory
anyway |
| MIL
/ FIL |
Mother-in-Law
/ Father-in-Law. They're
important to our gifted children, too... |
| Montessori
school |
Montessori educational practice helps children develop
creativity, problem solving, social, and time-management skills, to
contribute to society and the environment, and to become fulfilled persons
in their particular time and place on Earth. However, Montessori is
not legally protected, and can be used by anyone, for any purpose.
Visit Montessori International for
more information. |
|
MOOC |
Massive Open Online Course. Visit
Wikipedia
for lots more information, including links to the most popular MOOCs:
Khan Academy (K-12),
Udacity (tech industry experts),
Coursera (top universities) and
more... |
| NAGC |
National Association for
Gifted Children. State affiliates have a variety of acronyms,
including
Florida Association of Gifted (FLAG), Minnesota Council for the Gifted and
Talented (MCGT), Gifted Association of Missouri (GAM), Nebraska Association for the
Gifted and others - see Gifted
Organizations |
| NARS |
North Atlantic Regional Schools. See
Distance Learning Programs |
|
NBD |
No Big Deal |
|
NCLB |
No Child Left Behind. Federal
legislation requiring stronger accountability for results, more freedom for
states and communities, proven education methods, and more choices for
parents. But NCLB is causing great concern about gifted parents and
educators, as gifted programs are eliminated to pay for more remedial
education, and gifted children are no longer taught in order to make even a
single year's achievement gain during a school year. |
|
Netiquette |
interNET etIQUETTE. Common sense rules of good behavior when
interacting online. See
Wikipedia for more
details |
|
NLD or NVLD |
Nonverbal Learning Disorder. A
neurological syndrome consisting of specific assets and deficits; assets
include early speech and vocabulary development, remarkable rote memory
skills, attention to detail, early reading skills development and excellent
spelling skills. Deficits fall into 4 categories: motor,
visual-spatial-organizational, social, and sensory. See
Twice Exceptional |
| NNAT |
Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test. See Inventory
of Tests |
| NRC/GT |
National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. Visit NRC/GT |
| NT |
Neuro-Typical... another way to say... "normal"
A wise woman once told me, ""normal" is a setting on a clothes dryer."
She's right. |
| OCD |
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
See Twice Exceptional |
| ODD |
Oppositional-Defiant Disorder.
See Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) |
| OE's |
Over Excitabilities. Extreme sensitivities in one or
more arenas. See Dabrowski and
Sensitivities |
| OP |
Original Poster... the person who first said {whatever is being
discussed...} |
| OT |
Off Topic. A netiquette indication that the post to
follow isn't related to the subject of the group / list where it is posted
or
Occupational Therapy / Therapist |
| OTOH |
On The Other Hand |
| Out-of-level testing |
giving a child a test designed and normed for older
children. Commonly used by Talent Search
programs... |
|
PAGE |
Parents Association of Gifted Education (anywhere), or
Pennsylvania Association of Gifted
Education, the Pennsylvania state NAGC
affiliate |
|
PDD-NOS |
Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified. Some
students who might be identified as Aspergers or High Functioning Autism (HFA)
receive this diagnosis instead. Visit
Asperger's Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism for more... |
| Percent score |
total number of correct answers given, divided by the total
number of correct answers possible, then multiplied by 100. Percent is
rarely seen as a test result. See What Do
the Tests Tell Us? |
|
Percentile rank (PR) |
Percentiles are not the same as percent correct! Percentile
is an age-based or grade-based rank indicating the percent of the norm
group of students tested who scored less than the student. 85th
percentile means only that 85 percent of students tested scored lower
than the subject, not that the subject got 85% of the questions correct.
Percentile scores are easily correlated to standard or IQ scores: 97th
percentile is the same as standard or IQ score of 130 or above. For large
populations, percentiles are an easy way to compare one child to age /
grade peers. Note: a side effect of percentile scoring is that as more and
more of the population being tested answer all the questions correctly on
the test or any sub-test, the lower their percentile scores will
become. This is particularly obvious in a small population sample such as
the local percentiles, which may compare your child only to others in the
same school and grade. See What Do the
Tests Tell Us? |
|
PHP
/ THP |
Teaching for High Potential / Parenting for High Potential, alternative
journals to the research-based Gifted Child Quarterly provided to the
National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC)
members as a benefit of membership. See
Journals and Magazines on Gifted |
| PIQ
/ VIQ |
The Performance and Verbal subscale scores of the WISC-IV individual IQ
test. Visit An Inventory of Tests |
|
PLEP |
Present Levels of Educational Performance, a Pennsylvania GIEP component.
You cannot write a GIEP without them! Visit
Present Levels of Educational Performance |
|
PLN |
Personal Learning Network.
An informal learning network that consists of the people a learner interacts
with and derives knowledge from. Visit
Wikipedia
for more... |
|
PLUS |
PLUS Academic Abilities Assessment, often given to 5th-6th
grade students as part of Talent Search
testing |
|
PSEO |
Post Secondary Enrollment Options, a.k.a. dual enrollment in high school and
college, usually at no cost to the student. See
Gifted Education Mandates |
| PTSD |
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Severe after-reaction
to stress; some very gifted children and adults had this serious reaction to
terrorist activities in the US and other very stressful events |
| Pull out |
Students are "pulled" from the classroom for one or more
hours per week for extension or enrichment. See
Gifted Programs |
| Radical Acceleration |
Three or more grade accelerations over the K-12 school
career, or a comparable number of accelerations in a younger child. See
Academic Acceleration |
| Raw score |
Actual number of questions answered correctly. Often
presented along with the total questions asked. If results of an achievement
test do not include the raw scores, ask for them - percentiles can be
misleading... See What Do the Tests Tell
Us? |
|
RBTL |
Read Between The Lines |
|
Red-Shirting |
The practice, common in some areas, of holding back a child to start
Kindergarten a year later than his age and local admission policies suggest,
to give the child some undefined advantage at a later time due to his added
maturity, possibly in sports or academics. See
Early (or Late) Kindergarten |
| ROTFLOL |
Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Loud
(sometimes seen as ROTFL, without the extra laughter) |
| RT |
ReTweet, to repost someone else's post to your followers on Twitter |
|
SAD |
Seasonal Affective Disorder, also known as Wintertime
Depression |
| SAT-I or SAT |
Three-hour test, measures verbal and mathematical
reasoning skills students have developed over time and skills they need to
be successful academically. Talent Search programs commonly use the SAT-I as an
out-of-level achievement test for gifted 7th and 8th graders. See
College Board.com |
SB-IV
SB-5
SB L-M |
Three forms of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test.
The newest form is the SB-5, which results in a score similar to that of the
Wechsler series of tests. Previous form is the SB-IV, still given by some
professionals. Oldest is the SB L-M, the only modern IQ test without
the hard ceilings forced by a deviation score table. See
Testing |
| SCAT |
School & College Ability Test, often given to elementary-age
students as part of Talent Search testing |
| SD |
School District |
|
SEM |
Standard Error of Measurement. The statistical value related to a
specific test that should added and subtracted to/from the received test
score to determine the range of possible score based on the received score
and the test. For example, if you want to identify all gifted students
(standard score=130), and the test's SEM is 3, then...
For 65% confidence interval, use test score +/- SEM:
127-133
For 90% confidence interval, use test score +/- 2*SEM:
124-136
To select all the gifted kids using a test with SEM=3 with 90% confidence,
you would need to include all students who score 124 or higher |
| SENG |
Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted. A national organization with
annual conference, research grants, and more, in support of the social and
emotional needs of gifted children and adults. Visit
SENG |
| SI or SID |
Sensory Integration (Disorder). A diagnosis, sometimes
questioned by medical professionals, for folks who are more than a little
sensory defensive; either they get too much, or too little, sensory input,
and therefore see / feel / hear / smell / sense the world differently.
Visit Sensory Integration (SI) |
|
SL |
Second Life is a 3-dimensional virtual
world (social network), used in gifted education to run free world-wide
virtual conferences |
|
Spam |
Unsolicited commercial e-mail, usually sent to multiple unsuspecting
recipients at once |
| Standard deviation (SD) |
A statistical measure
of spread or variability.
Assuming normal distribution (an assumption in intelligence testing), 68% of
scores fall within 1 SD of the mean (usually 100), and 95% of scores fall
within 2 SD of the mean. If the SD = 15 (as for most intelligence /
ability tests), 95% of the population falls between 70 and 130. Gifted
is considered the 2.5% that fall above the second standard deviation (SD)
Visit RobertNiles.com
for an excellent explanation. Also see
What Do the Tests Tell Us? |
|
Standard Error of
Measure (SEM) |
Measure of an estimate's reliability. Larger SEM
values indicate less reliable tests. The given score +/- SEM is the
estimated range the actual score lies in. Also called the confidence
interval - +/- one SEM gives a 68% confidence interval, +/- 1.65 SEMs gives
a 90% confidence interval. Visit
RoberNiles.com for detailed explanation. And see
confidence interval for the common use of SEM. Also see
What Do the Tests Tell Us? |
| Standard score (SS) |
A score calculated to have a mean or standard score of 100,
standard deviation of (commonly, but not always) 15, such that 95% of the
population falls within two standard deviations of the norm, i.e. from 70 -
130 according to the bell curve. IQ scores are standard scores.
See What Do the Tests Tell Us? |
| Stanine |
Another representation of the percentile score.
Stanine divides the
percentiles into 9 divisions, with the 4, 5 and 6th stanine considered
average, 7th and 8th stanine considered above average, and 9th stanine
considered very much above average. The percentage of test scores in each
stanine is as follows:
| Stanine |
Percent of
Scores |
Percentiles |
| 1 |
4 |
0th - 3rd |
| 2 |
7 |
4th - 10th |
| 3 |
12 |
11th - 22nd |
| 4 |
17 |
23rd - 39th |
| 5 |
20 |
40th - 59th |
| 6 |
17 |
60th - 76th |
| 7 |
12 |
77th - 88th |
| 8 |
7 |
89th - 95th |
| 9 |
4 |
96th + |
|
| Subject Acceleration |
Student takes individual subject instruction at a higher
grade level, either with the higher grade class, or by independent study or
distance education. This is often used for unevenly gifted students in
their area of strength, or as a pre-cursor to full grade acceleration.
See Academic Acceleration |
|
TAG |
Talented And Gifted, another name for Gifted, often as the name of a gifted
program |
|
Taglet |
An affectionate name for young person (-let) considered to be Talented and
Gifted (TAG) |
TAGFAM
TAGMAX
TAGPDQ |
Mailing lists for families of gifted students. TAGFAM is
general information; TAGMAX is for homeschooling families of gifted
students; TAGPDQ is for families of "more than just plain gifted" students.
See TAGFAM |
| Talent Search |
Academic programs across the country / world, that use
out-of-level achievement tests to identify gifted students. See
Talent Search |
|
Telescoping |
Instruction that entails less time than is normal (e. g., completing a one
year course in one semester, or three years of middle school in two).
Telescoping differs from curriculum compacting in that time saved from
telescoping always results in advanced grade placement. See
Curriculum Modifications. Definition from
A Nation Deceived, volume 2,
page 14. |
|
THP
/ PHP |
Teaching for High Potential / Parenting for High Potential, alternative
journals to the research-based Gifted Child Quarterly provided to the
National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC)
members as a benefit of membership. See
Journals and Magazines on Gifted |
| TIA |
Thanks In Advance |
|
TIP |
Duke's Talent Identification Program, a summer talent search
program. See Talent Search |
|
TLC |
Tender Loving Care |
| Tracking |
Old method of testing children at very young ages, then assigning them to a
track or level of classroom, that was maintained inflexibly throughout their
education. No longer used in the U.S. - but see the new research-based
and flexible alternative,
Grouping |
| TS |
Tourette's Syndrome, a tic disorder |
Twice
Exceptional |
Individuals who are gifted and learning disabled, also
called Gifted / LD or dually identified. See Twice Exceptional |
|
Twitter |
Social networking site that includes many gifted organizations and
resources. Twitter messages are short, no more than 140 characters in
length. See Gifted Online Communities
for popular Twitter gifted groups and individuals to follow... |
|
Twitter Chat |
Interactive conversation at a specific time on Twitter. For example,
#gtchat... |
| VIQ
/ PIQ |
The Verbal and Performance subscale scores of the WISC individual IQ
tests. Visit Tests |
VS
V/S |
Visual / Spatial. A person who thinks in pictures,
rather than words or some other means of memory. Easily noted by
listening... if we're trying to think of something, and say "I can't see
it..." that's a visual / spatial person. For more, visit
Visual-Spatial |
WISC
WPPSI
WAIS |
Wechsler series of IQ tests. WPPSI is for preschool
students through age 7 (but shouldn't be used above age 6 for gifted
students due to ceilings); WISC is for school age students through age 17
(again, shouldn't be used above 16 for gifted students); WAIS is the adult
version for ages 16 and up. See
An Inventory of Tests |
|
Wiki |
Automated informational website, where visitors add their
own entries, thus increasing the body of knowledge. For an example,
visit Wikipedia.com
Contrary to some
popular belief, Wikipedia is as accurate as an encyclopedia... read
Wikipedia
survives research test and Britannica's rebuttal,
Britannica
lashes out at Wikipedia comparison study. More recent research
continues to support Wikipedia's accuracy
Experts
rate Wikipedia's accuracy higher than non-experts |
|
WJ or WJ-III |
Woodcock-Johnson cognitive and/or achievement
test. See An Inventory of Tests |
YKYCIGW
or
YKYtPoaGCW |
You Know Your Child Is Gifted When... or You Know You're the Parent of a
Gifted Child When... Enjoy You Know You're the
Parent of a Gifted Child When... |
|
YMMV |
Your
Mileage May Vary (and we all know that May should be Will) |
| yo |
year-old, as in 9yo |
|
YS |
Davidson Young Scholars
program. A free program supporting exceptionally and profoundly gifted
children ages 5-18 (must apply by 16), including social-emotional, advocacy,
homeschooling, and many other kinds of support, as needed by the child and
family
Or sometimes Jack Kent Cook Young Scholars program. |
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