[Oz-gifted] tests in the public & private system

[Narelle W]

When discussing tests, they used the words "standardised or non 
standardised". Hence because the Basic Skills test was standardised it was 
held in very high regard. IQ tests and Competition results are apparently 
not, so the results were discounted. ( I know, I just shook my head, 
speechless.)

DD is in a non Catholic private school in QLD. So no G&T policy or 
counsellor or coordinator or anything. As she is in yr 8, it is a case of 
negotiating individually with key teachers to try and put in place extension 
&/ or acceleration opportunities. Principal and Deputy are clueless. There 
has been 7 different English teachers alone in the last 2 years ( P-12 
school), not to mention all the other different subject teachers. So 
negotiating subject by subject is not only time consuming but mostly  a 
waste of time, because many of them have not had any G&T training. Several 
are recent graduates and out of interest I checked out the nearby CQU 
Bachelor of Learning Management course ( as it is now called) , and it 
definitely is possible to graduate without studying even one unit in gifted 
ed. Hard to even start a dialogue when they are unaware of the basic 
fundamentals.

Narelle
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ellen Hrebeniuk" <ehrebeniuk at optushome.com.au>
To: <oz-gifted at cobia.ed.qut.edu.au>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Oz-gifted] tests in the public system


> At 5:38 PM +1000 21/9/06, Narelle W wrote:
>>Trouble is each school or teacher will only accept certain "evidence" but
>>reject others. I had a recent experience where only the basic skills tests
>>results were considered "standardised" and therefore acceptable as 
>>evidence
>>of giftedness by my dd's school. Individual teacher's opinions were also
>>given extreme weight. I presented other evidence of even higher ability,
>>such as APTS, IQ tests ( WIPPSI, WISC 111, & UNSW competitions) all of 
>>which
>>were rejected as unreliable and therefore meaningless.
>
> Astonishing, isn't it -- and what exactly do *they* mean by
> unreliable, anyway?  Are you in NSW?  Each District Office is
> supposed to have a G&T officer, and the school counsellor should be
> able to give help too.
> -- 
> Ellen Hrebeniuk
> Sydney, Australia
>
> Being a librarian is how you change the world.
> Nancy Pearl
>
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