2022-2023 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
    Apr 27, 2024  
2022-2023 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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END 501 Identification and Assessment of Gifted Students


3 credits

This course focuses on recognizing and evaluating the cognitive and affective traits of gifted learners. The course addresses ways in which cultural factors, economic status, gender, and race can influence the identification of gifted learners. It investigates tools for assessing various aspects of giftedness as well as methods of discerning and monitoring the needs and challenges of this population in the classroom. Special emphasis is given to understanding creativity as a characteristic of gifted learners and to developing strategies for identifying and nurturing creative or divergent thinking and behavior.



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