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  • Organizations: Local

    Amend Psychological Services, PSC (Lexington, KY)
    Amend Psychological Services provides comprehensive psychological services including assessment and evaluation, consultations, counseling, and therapy for children, adolescents, and their families. Populations served in our practice include: students with LD, ADHD, or other learning and behavior difficulties; gifted/talented students; special needs students; twice exceptional learners; children experiencing life adjustments associated with divorce, grief and loss, and other family transitions; and, children with chronic illness or chronic pain such as migraines.

  • Organizations: National

    Buros Center for Testing
    This organization provides critical appraisals of tests and descriptive information, offering psychometric consultation services, and developing deeper understanding of testing and assessment practices.
    Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale Test
    Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales (SB5), Fifth Edition, also known as the SB-5, is the latest version of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales. Expanding on its predecessors' positive features, results from the SB-5 can even more effectively distinguish among the highly gifted. The test can help categorize students as bright, moderately gifted, highly gifted, extremely gifted, or profoundly gifted, depending on the results. This version is tailored to a student's individual cognitive abilities, resulting in a more accurate measurement of ability.

  • Organizations: Regional

    Center for the Gifted (Philadelphia, PA)
    The Center for the Gifted was established in 1983 to meet the needs of gifted people of all ages. Services include: Counseling and psychotherapy for gifted individuals, couples, and families; Gifted identification and psychoeducational assessment; Vocational interest testing and career guidance; Workshops and publications focusing on the special needs of people who are gifted.
    Summit Center (California)
    Summit Center provides educational and psychological assessments, consultations, and treatment for children, their parents, and families, as well as parent discussion groups and educational opportunities. Their specialties include managing stress and anxiety, learning differences such as dyslexia, and issues related to giftedness and twice-exceptionality.

  • Printed Materials: Books

    Alternative Assessments With Gifted and Talented Students (The Critical Issues in Equity and Excellence in Gifted Education Series)
    Written by Joyce VanTassel-Baska, Ed.D., this book provides a concise and thorough introduction to methods for identifying gifted students in the school setting. Including overviews of assessment tools and alternative methods of assessment, as well as pertinent discussions concerning the need to identify gifted and talented students, this book combines research and experience from top scholars in the field of gifted education in a convenient guide for teachers, administrators, and gifted education program directors. Click here to read a review of this book.
    Assessing Special Students
    Assessment is at the center of all good teaching, and this book is designed to provide a clear, comprehensive guide to the assessment of students with mild disabilities. This book will give you both an understanding of the assessment process and the concrete, practical skills necessary to assess special students successfully so that you can teach them well.
    Assessment: In Special and Inclusive Education
    The standard for all assessment personnel, this book continues its tradition of evenhanded coverage of formal and informal assessment for the purpose of making educational decisions about students.
    Challenging Highly Gifted Learners (The Practical Strategies Series in Gifted Education)
    Written by Barbara Gilman, this book focuses on many of the issues involved in assessing and challenging highly gifted learners. A thorough discussion of the ceiling problems encountered on common assessments is included, as well as strategies for teachers and parents in planning appropriate education.
    Essentials of Gifted Assessment (Essentials of Psychological Assessment) 1st Edition
    This book introduces readers to the theory and practice underlying gifted assessment. Steven Pfeiffer, a leading expert in the field of gifted assessment, discusses what it means to be gifted, why we should identify gifted students, and the purposes of gifted assessment.
    Essentials of WISC-III and WPPSI-R Essentials
    This book deals with the essentials of two widely used and globally well-known child intelligence tests, the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - Third Edition (WISC-III), for ages 6-16 years, and the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence - Revised (WPPSI-R), for ages 3-7 years. In order to use them properly, professionals need an authoritative source of advice and guidance on how to administer, score, and interpret these tests.
    Parents' Guide to IQ Testing and Gifted Education: All You Need to Know to Make the Right Decisions for Your Child
    This book is written specifically for parents who wonder if their child is gifted. Author David Palmer helps parents who have little or no experience with gifted testing and programming and explains these topics in-depth. The text is written in a succinct, easy-to-understand format and answers the questions that parents most commonly ask.
    The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy
    Nicholas Lemann's The Big Test starts off as a look at how the SAT became an integral part of the college application process. But about a third of the way through the book, Lemann shifts gears and writes about several college students from the late '60s and early '70s. The reasons for the change-up only become clear in the final third, when those same college students, now in their 40s, lead the fight against California's Proposition 209, a 1996 ballot initiative aimed at eliminating affirmative action programs.

  • Websites & Other Media: Commercial

    Membean
    This company provides web based tools to help students excel at tests. They aim to bring evidence based, well researched instruction techniques out of learning labs and into everyday use.
    Mindprint
    An educational company committed to helping parents and teachers better understand how an individual child learns, Mindprint provides a cognitive assessment parents can administer to their children at home. The assessment was developed at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and is used by NASA and NIH. With the annual subscription cost, Mindprint provides the assessment, report and unlimited access to personalized learning recommendations for a full year.

  • Websites & Other Media: For Fun

    Raise Smart Kids
    Raise Smart Kids provides a unique range of different math problems to help interested and gifted students develop outstanding capabilities in mathematics. We equip them with thinking skills that provide life-long benefits, and improve their chances of admission to top universities.

  • Websites & Other Media: Informational

    Current Use of the Stanford-Binet, Form L-M
    This article discusses current uses of the older form of the Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale (Form L-M) as a supplemental assessment for extremely gifted children. The authors delineate when and why to use this test.
    Differential Ability Scales (DAS)
    Get more in-depth information with a single, child-friendly battery that assesses the multidimensional nature of abilities in children and adolescents. With attractive, colorful materials designed to hold attention, this test yields overall cognitive ability and achievement scores and provides a reliable measure of specific abilities.
    Abilities Tested: Overall Cognitive Ability, Specific Abilities, Achievement
    History of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales: Content and Psychometrics
    This article provides an excellent history of the development of the Stanford-Binet series of intelligence tests. It includes information on test structure, content, scoring, correlation among tests and limitations. As yet, some of the best information available on the new SB-5 released in 2003.
    Intelligence - Great Ideas in Personality
    This page hosted by PersonalityResearch.org, covers the discussion that there are basically two camps on the theory of intelligence: One of general intelligence and one of multiple intelligences.
    Slosson Intelligence Test for Children and Adults - Revised
    The SIT-R is a quick and reliable individual screening test of Crystallized Verbal Intelligence. The Verbal Intelligence domain is shown to have the highest positive correlation with overall mental ability. The SIT-R facilitates screening and provides tentative diagnosis or confirmation of other test results to insure proper placement and remediation. Abilities Tested: Cognitive Ability
    TestDatesCentral.com
    This website provides information on the major standardized tests, such as dates, cost, how to register and more. There are also free preparation videos for each.
    Use of the SB5 in the Assessment of High Abilities
    Learn about the features of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales (SB5). These include: high ceilings for standard ability scores, continuous testing of abilities in a single instrument from early childhood through old age, Extended IQ scores and gifted composite scores that optimize assessment for gifted program selection.
    Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-IV)
    The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC), developed by David Wechsler, is an intelligence test for children between the ages of 6 and 16 inclusive that can be completed without reading or writing. The WISC generates an IQ score.
    Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children®–Fifth Edition
    (WISC®-V)
    Available in the fall of 2014, the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC), developed by David Wechsler, is an intelligence test for children between the ages of 6 and 16 inclusive that can be completed without reading or writing. The WISC generates an IQ score.
    Woodcock-Johnson IV (WJ IV)
    WJ IV™ provides three independent and co-normed batteries, which can be used separately or in any combination: WJ IV Tests of Cognitive Abilities; WJ IV Tests of Achievement; and WJ IV Tests of Oral Language. The WJ IV emphasizes the identification of individual strengths and weaknesses by providing comparisons both within each battery and across batteries.