Novel Gifted identification methods to find gifted people forgotten in the system

Speaker: Hernán Castillo-Hermosilla 

Feldhusen Doctoral Student Fellow in Education. Marcia Gentry Influence Scholar & Fulbright Scholar. MENSA Foundation Gifted Education Fellow & Dean's Doctoral Fellow. Department of Educational Studies.. College of Education.

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Mr. Castillo-Hermosilla will present a project explores novel gifted identification methods to find gifted people forgotten in the system by current instruments and how these other measurements may be relevant to use for additional pathways for identifying children who may be overlooked. This research project was given an award by the MENSA Researchn and Education Foundation (he presented it this year at the Foundation Meeting at the Mensa Annual Gathering in Kansas City) and he also received the Marcia Gentry Influence Scholarship.

Sponsored by Alison Brown