Adjustments to Traditional Procedures for Identifying Underserved Students: Successes and Failures

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Exceptional Children

Volume

61

Issue

1

Publisher

Council for Exceptional Children

Publication Date

1994

First Page

72

Last Page

76

Abstract

A brief narrative description of the journal article, document, or resource. A survey of 39 school districts serving large numbers of culturally diverse students found that many districts listed gifted students from ethnic/linguistic minorities or economically disadvantaged as important underserved populations. Alternative identification procedures were primarily intended to expand the assessment basis, and factors associated with success included quality school personnel and the assessment practices themselves. (Author/JDD)

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