Secondary Gifted Support Specialist Santa Fe Public Schools, New Mexico
Short description: Scout for talent with a comparative judgment web app to find missing gifted students in visual and performing arts. Adapt and use a free, teacher-designed, open-source web app for universal screening based on reliable and valid quantitative assessment data in arts domains. Identify high performance using local norms in school subjects that can be tricky to test.
Learning Outcomes: Participants will:
Learn about the comparative judgment (CJ) psychometric method
Evaluate the results of the use of the CJ web app for universal screening based on local norms to identify for high potential and reduce excellence gaps in the visual arts
Understand how to adapt the open-source software to a custom installation for a variety of specific educational uses