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Zafer Ozen; Nielsen Pereira; Tugce Karatas; Hernán Castillo-Hermosilla; Yukiko Maeda – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2025
Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) is one of the most frequently used gifted identification tools. In this meta-analytic study, we investigated empirical evidence of the validity of CogAT, in relation to different types of instruments. After reviewing 1,480 studies, a total of 24 with 33 effect sizes were included in the meta-analysis. According to…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Cognitive Tests, Disability Identification, Scores
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Daniel B. Hajovsky; Kathrin E. Maki; Christopher R. Niileksela; Ryan J. McGill – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2025
Although specific learning disabilities (SLD) represent the largest category for which school-age children receive special education services, the science and practice of SLD identification continues to evade consensus. Our goal is to bring together trainers and researchers with different perspectives on SLD identification to help spur a move…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Disability Identification, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests
Jonathan Klingeman – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This action-research dissertation explored how Standard Age Scores on the "Cognitive Abilities Test™" ("CogAT®") (Cognitive Abilities Test) Screening Form of underserved populations, as identified through gifted literature, compared to those students who are traditionally overserved with mental gifted identification within the…
Descriptors: Talent Identification, Academically Gifted, Disproportionate Representation, Screening Tests
Tamra Stambaugh; Lindsay Ellis Lee; Matthew Makel; Scott Peters; Kiana R. Johnson – Gifted Child Today, 2024
The ability to effectively identify students for advanced learning opportunities has been an ongoing issue within the field of gifted education. Common criteria to guide the design and evaluation of identification systems has been essentially non-existent. In this article we provide a practical guide for evaluating and reflecting on the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Academically Gifted
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Kelsey Harkness; Signe Bray; Chelsea M. Durber; Deborah Dewey; Kara Murias – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Attention and executive function (EF) dysregulation are common in a number of disorders including autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Better understanding of the relationship between indirect and direct measures of attention and EF and common neurodevelopmental diagnoses may contribute to more efficient and effective…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Executive Function
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Hajovsky, Daniel B.; Maki, Kathrin E.; Chesnut, Steven R.; Barrett, Courtenay A.; Burns, Matthew K. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2022
This study examined the extent to which cognitive ability index scores predicted multidisciplinary teams' (MDT) SLD identification within a response-to-intervention (RtI) method after accounting for RtI slope and norm-referenced achievement scores. Results showed that four achievement composite scores (i.e., basic reading, reading comprehension,…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Disability Identification, Response to Intervention, Cognitive Tests
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Yuyang Shen; Nicole Sankofa; Rachel U. Mun – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2025
This study employs critical content analysis to investigate school districts' identification process of gifted Emergent Bilinguals (EBLs) in North Texas. Despite the diverse population and significant presence of EBLs in Texas, this group is notably underrepresented in gifted programs. In order to uncover the inequities for gifted EBLs, this study…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Gifted Education, Scoring Rubrics, School Districts
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Shanock, Andrew; Flanagan, Dawn P.; Alfonso, Vincent C.; McHale-Small, Monica – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2022
The objective of this study is to assist school psychologists and school districts in understanding the cost of implementing the Dual Discrepancy/Consistency (DD/C) method, which is the most widely used PSW method of SLD identification. A literature review was conducted to obtain national data on variables needed to estimate the cost of…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, School Psychology, Disability Identification, Students with Disabilities