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Hunsaker, Scott L.; And Others – 1995
This study compared the gifted program performance of 121 economically disadvantaged students identified by using the Research-Based Assessment Plan (RAP) and 166 students who were not economically disadvantaged identified through traditional identification methods. The study also compared the RAP-identified students' attitudes toward school to…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Achievement, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
Cowan, Ruth S. – 1992
This practicum report describes an identification prototype used by a large metropolitan school district (Gwinnet County, Georgia) to identify giftedness in black and limited English speaking students. Underrepresentation of these groups in gifted programs is seen to result from: teacher reluctance to refer students from the target populations;…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Black Students, Cultural Differences, Elementary School Students