Answer 6 questions. 50words/each

1. Has you ever taken an IQ test?  After hearing your score, did this change your mentality about tests?

 

2. Now it’s your turn:  http://www.freeiqtestonline.com/index.html (Links to an external site.)

Mandelman & Grigorenko (2013) discussed how intellectually gifted is thought of as being the same as having a high IQ. After having taken this test, what can you identify as potential biases related to IQ tests or other tests?

Discussion questions

1. Was there a gifted education program at your school (what type)? Were you involved, for how long, and what was your experience like? What was the impact academically/socially?  If you weren’t involved how did this affect you? 

 

2. In your high school, did they implement class rankings? If yes, how did this affect students that were close to the top? What about students at the bottom?

 

3. A current problem is that schools do not have similar clearly defined goals (if any) for their gifted education programs? What do you believe the goal should be of gifted education? 

 

4. Ralph and Kevin are best friends. Ralph got held back a grade and now Kevin is a year ahead of him. How will this affect their lives (present and future)?

 

5. Olive is a second grader who tested as gifted. Her teachers want to pull her out of her classroom to do accelerated work in a resource room. How could this be harmful or helpful to Olive (think about social, academic, and emotional impacts)? 

 

6. If you had to create a gifted program for an elementary school, what would it look like? What would you do to address some of the problems discussed? Does your definition of “gifted” align with Mandelman & Grigorenko’s (2013) definition?