Informational GATE MeetingTopic: Identification

(LAUSD Policy)

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Agenda

GATE Identification Process

Categories of Identification

Identification Criteria

Additional Information

Questions

Identification Process

Search and referral (should begin with teacher)

Screening (teacher and GATE Coordinators)

Review (GATE Coordinators)

LAUSD Verification

Categories of Identification

1. Intellectual Ability:

Students whose general intellectual development is markedly advanced in relation to their chronological peers. Advanced scores on CST in ELA or Math

2. High Achievement:

Grade 4 and above: Students who consistently function for two consecutive years at highly advanced levels in both English-Language Arts and Math.

Grade 2 only: Students who demonstrate high achievement on a nationally standardized, norm-referenced, group-administered measure of verbal and non-verbal abilities.

3. Specific Academic Ability:

Students who consistently function for three consecutive years at highly advanced levels in either English-Language Arts or Math.

Criteria for Identification

Intellectual Ability 1 semester of observation by teacher

Review of cums, report cards, student work

Evidence of intellectual ability, including but not limited to:

Advanced reasoning ability

Superior vocabulary

Rapid acquisition of a 2nd language

Demonstrated advanced academic ability, i.e. two years above grade level in reading comprehension, and mathematical reasoning and problem-solving

Accelerated rate of learning new tasks

OR

Scaled scores in the advanced level on state tests

A pattern of advanced academic ability or an indication of the potential for advanced academic performance

Intellectual Ability (cont’d)

DESIGNATION only if:

District GATE office approves initial paperwork for Intellectual Ability testing

Intellectual Ability testing: Gifted: score of 95 to 99.8% Highly Gifted Applicable: score of 99.5 to

99.8% Highly Gifted: score of 99.9%

High Achievement Ability

(Grades 4 and above)

2 current, consecutive years of advanced achievement in ELA and Math

ELA: 450

Math: 455

Must be a minimum of 3 out of 4 test scores on State test

1 score may be replaced with grade of “4” in achievement in both 2nd and 3rd report cards of the given subject area (Reading or Math)

High Achievement Ability

(Grade 2 ONLY)

OLSAT-8

• Otis Lennon School Ability Test (OLSAT) 8th edition

• Administered to all second graders in LAUSD in March

• Nationally standardized, norm-referenced achievement test (from Pearson Publishers) measuring verbal and non-verbal school abilities– Perceive accurately– Recognize and recall those perceptions– Think logically– Understand relationships– Abstract from a set of particulars– Generalize to new and different contexts– NOT an IQ test

Sample OLSAT Questions

Qualifying OLSAT Scores(Total Age-Based Percentile Score or “Age PR-S”)

• 95th percentile and above, OR• 90th and 94th percentile must ALSO have both of

the following CST scores for 2nd Grade:– ELA: 450 or above– Math: 455 or above

Specific Academic Ability

Grade 4 and above

3 current, consecutive years of advanced achievement in ELA or Math

ELA: 450

Math: 455

1 score may be replaced with grade of “4” in 2nd and 3rd trimester report card of the given subject area (Reading or Math)

Grade may NOT be substituted for the most current year

Additional Information

Magnet school applications (CHOICES brochure) for 2014-2015 due on November 15, 2013

See your child’s classroom teacher, first, if you have questions about GATE eligibility or differentiation in the classroom

District GATE office is currently understaffed, so processing of paperwork may take a long time

Once designated, designation may show up on report card before school receives formal notification

Questions