EDUF 5133G - Assessment and Procedures for Teaching Gifted and Talented Learners (3 Credit Hours)

Other Contact Hours: 3
This course emphasizes research-based strategies for instruction and assessments to enhance gifted student performance. The course provides teachers of gifted learners ways to identify appropriate identification procedures for gifted learners, design, analyze, and use results from student assessments to diagnose problems, improve teaching, and to motivate gifted students’ learning. Course participants will examine assessments tools, analyze districts’ assessment and gifted eligibility requirements, and consider their uses and limitations for identifying individuals with exceptional learning needs, including students from diverse backgrounds. The course has a required field component. Graduate students will engage in more advanced data analysis and research to analyze teaching effectiveness and justify differentiated instructional decisions for gifted learners.

Prerequisite(s): A minimum grade of “B” in ESED 5130G and ESED 5131G and ESED 5132G.
Cross Listing(s): EDUF 5133
Restriction(s): NO Undergraduate Level Students
Repeat Limit: Not Repeatable
When Offered: Once a year