Identifying and selecting able students for the NAGTY summer school: emerging issues and future considerations

Dimitra Hartas; Geoff Lindsay; Daniel Muijs

doi:10.1080/13598130801980265

Identifying and selecting able students for the NAGTY summer school: emerging issues and future considerations

Dimitra Hartas^*
, Geoff Lindsay
, Daniel Muijs

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In recent years, there has been an increasing recognition that the educational needs of able students were not being adequately met in British schools resulting in a series of governmental educational initiatives aiming at improving the education of able students. The establishment of the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth (NAGTY) at the University of Warwick was a development aimed at enhancing able students' educational provision. An evaluation of the first summer school, established under the auspices of NAGTY, took place to address issues of identifying and selecting able students, exploring the relative value of different sources of evidence for determining eligibility, and looking at the overall effectiveness of the selection process. Qualitative methods (i.e., interviews, observations, document analysis) were employed to collect data on the process of identifying and selecting able students. The evaluation yielded interesting results with regard to the criteria/eligibility for selection, decisions about what counts as evidence of giftedness and its relative value.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5-18
Number of pages	14
Journal	High Ability Studies
Volume	19
Issue number	1
Early online date	22 May 2008
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13598130801980265
Publication status	Published - Jun 2008
Externally published	Yes

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Over the last decade, a series of government educational initiatives aiming at improving their education especially in inner cities have been implemented. These include: Excellence in Schools – the first government White Paper [Department for Education and Employment (DfEE), 1997]; an international survey by the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) (Freeman, 1999); the establishment of a national Gifted and Talented Advisory Group; an enquiry into the education of the highly able by the Select Committee (House of Commons Education and Employment Committee, 1999); and DfEE-commissioned research by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) on the national provision for able students.

Keywords

Assessment of gifted children
G & T identification
Gifted
Talented

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