Teacher Nominations

Teacher nomination has been found to be a valuable method to use to identify students for gifted and talented programs. The use of teacher nomination, described in this entry, has been compared with other independent variables such [Page 879]as peer and parent ratings and evaluations of work samples and is considered a standard practice in the identification of academically gifted and talented students. However, only a small number of teacher nomination instruments have been developed for rating the characteristics of high-ability students, and only a few studies have investigated the technical aspects of most scales. Several researchers have investigated the effectiveness of teacher nominations of students for gifted programs during the last few decades and their findings suggest that when specific rating criteria exist, teachers ...