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DISCOVER: Concurrent Validity, Gender Differences, and Identification of Minority Students.
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Sarouphim, Ketty M. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2001
A study involving 257 Navajo Indians and Mexican American elementary students, used the Raven Progressive Matrices to examined the concurrent validity of the DISCOVER assessment. Results provided some evidence for concurrent validity and showed that, through the use of the DISCOVER assessment, 22.9 percent were identified as gifted. (Contains…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, American Indians, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
DISCOVER: A Promising Alternative Assessment for the Identification of Gifted Minorities.
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Sarouphim, Ketty M. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1999
A relatively new performance-based assessment, the DISCOVER process, is presented in this review. The theoretical framework of the assessment is explained, followed by a delineation of the assessment process, checklist characteristics and development, and the tasks in the five different activities. Findings on assessment validity and reliability…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Gifted