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Valuing, Identifying, Cultivating, and Rewarding Talents of Students from Special Populations.

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St. Jean, David – National Research on the Gifted and Talented, 1996

This paper discusses the challenges of identifying gifted students from underrepresented or special populations. Reasons for underrepresentation of students from special populations are reviewed and include biases in standardized testing, underreferral of students from diverse cultural and ethnic groups to gifted programs by teachers, and the…

Descriptors: Ability Identification, Classroom Environment, Cultural Differences, Disproportionate Representation