ERIC Number: EJ1250973
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Jun
Pages: 18
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ISSN: ISSN-1323-9686
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Might This Student Be Twice-Exceptional? A Preliminary Assessment Tool for Primary-School Teachers
Haines, Mary-Anne; Cornish, Linley; Bannister-Tyrrell, Michelle
Australasian Journal of Gifted Education, v29 n1 p23-40 Jun 2020
The complex learning and socio-emotional profiles of students who are twice exceptional are often accompanied by challenges to their identification and support in the primary school. This exploratory research project, conducted in a primary school in New South Wales, Australia, focused on developing and trialling a comprehensive and useful assessment tool for teachers to use in the preliminary stage of investigating whether students might be twice-exceptional. Using mixed methods research methodology and a Participatory Action Research design, three primary-school teachers (including the first author) developed the Teacher Checklist Questionnaire (TCQ) based mainly on published research and anecdotal findings. All teachers at the school site from Years 2 to 6 (N = 10) participated in the first trial of the TCQ and the results from the analyses were positive in terms of validity, reliability, and usefulness. The main conclusion is that the tool shows promise as an early investigative tool to assess twice-exceptional students.
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Academically Gifted, Talent Identification, Test Construction, Test Validity, Check Lists, Comorbidity, Foreign Countries, Students with Disabilities, Disability Identification, Teacher Attitudes
Australian Association for the Education of the Gifted and Talented. School of Education, The University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia. e-mail: EditorAJGE@aaegt.net.au; Web site: http://www.aaegt.net.au/?page_id=736
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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