Wright City School District Gifted Identification and Appeals Process
Flow Chart for Gifted Evaluation Process
Missouri DESE Gifted Program Guidelines
(Process Guidelines pages 7-10)
Students need to qualify in the top 5% on measures 2.1 (general mental) and 2.2 (academic ability)
Wright City Gifted Testing Appeals Process
The district may consider an appeal of the gifted testing process if;
Missouri DESE Gifted Program Guidelines
(Process Guidelines pages 7-10)
Students need to qualify in the top 5% on measures 2.1 (general mental) and 2.2 (academic ability)
- All 2nd Grade students take the Naglieri as a Universal Screener and 2.3 Creativity, Reasoning, and Problem-Solving Ability
- Top 20% move on to next phase and qualify as 2.3 criteria
- Top 5% to count as group test 1 of 2 for 2.1 criteria
- 2.2 Academic Ability
- Analyze their Aimsweb Plus Math and ELA most recent score (Need to score at the top 5th national percentile on either)
- MAP - Need Advanced scores in either Math or ELA, but cannot have any score below Proficient
- If students are not in the top 5% and if they do not have Advanced or Proficient scores, but could potentially qualify as a twice-exceptional student they will be given the WIAT-IV (Need to score at 95%)
- If students do not score at the 95% on any, the process concludes.
- If they score 95% on a, b, or c they move on to Phase 3
- 2.1a- General Mental Ability
- Group IQ assessment (CoGat)
- Top 20% to qualify as 2.3 criteria
- Top 5% to count as test group measure 1 of 2 for 2.1 criteria
- 2.4 Other
- Gifted Teacher observation of student with rating scale
Wright City Gifted Testing Appeals Process
The district may consider an appeal of the gifted testing process if;
- Student's ability to take the assessments was impacted by language skills
- There is new information that was not available or not shared at the time of the initial referral that affected assessment or screening.