Webinar description:
Despite growing attention to equity, many high-potential students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, English learners, and students experiencing poverty remain underidentified for gifted services. This webinar examines how the Naglieri General Ability Tests support more equitable identification by measuring verbal, quantitative, and nonverbal reasoning while reducing barriers associated with language and prior opportunity. Participants will view simulated assessment activities, analyze test items, and learn how results can inform instructional decisions. Practical strategies for flexible grouping, curriculum compacting, differentiation, and talent development will help schools translate equitable identification into meaningful learning opportunities for advanced learners.
Date: September 10, 2026 @ 5:00 EDT
Learning objectives:
- Learn how the Naglieri General Ability Tests can improve equitable identification of gifted learners, particularly students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, English learners, and students experiencing poverty
- Understand how assessment design and test content influence equitable access to gifted identification
- Consider how research-based instructional practices—including flexible grouping, curriculum compacting, and differentiated instruction—can support the success of newly identified gifted learners
About the Presenter
Dr. Jack A. Naglieri is an internationally recognized scholar in psychological and educational assessment whose work has advanced equitable identification of gifted learners and the understanding of cognitive abilities. He has authored numerous widely used assessments, including measures of giftedness, executive functioning, and autism, and developed the PASS theory of intelligence and its applications to teaching, learning, and assessment.
