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  • The under-representation of ethnic minorities in gifted education programs is a persistent problem in the American educational system. Outstanding in popularity among possible solutions to this problem is the recommendation to use multiple-measure identification procedures to increase ethnic diversity. The purpose of this study, set in a suburban school district in the northeastern United States, is to investigate group differences, between fifth and ninth grades, among students identified for participation in honors classes through the use of a multiple-measure identification process administered in the fifth grade. The questions being investigated focus on whether, in a culturally diverse setting, the adoption of a more pluralistic approach to identification of gifted learners leads to a more diverse gifted population, and will the newly-identified students find similar rates of academic success as they enter their high school years? Data were collected from student records at the district level, with the variables being studied being specifically related to the identification of giftedness and academic success. Chi Square Analyses were performed to investigate four of the five research questions, with employment of ANCOVA procedures to investigate the final research question. Through the analyses, it was found that the introduction of the multiple-measure identification procedure did not increase the ethnic diversity of the program. Notwithstanding the fact that, overall, diversity was not increased by this new protocol, it was found that minority students identified were more likely to make it into the gifted program by virtue of the new protocol, not in the traditional single-measure way, which relied on standardized test results alone. Additionally, it was found that students in both protocols experienced similar academic success rates, retention rates in honors programs in high school, and similar academic gains as reflected standardized test scores. While this particular multiple-measure identification methodology did not increase the participation of minority students in honors courses in general, it did identify students who persevered in honors courses at the same rate as their traditionally identified counterparts. This finding is meaningful as we search for ways to identify students who will benefit from special programming for gifted learners over the long-term. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

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