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Item An Exploratory Study of the Psychometric Properties of the Hispanic Bilingual Gifted Screening Instrument at Grades 6-12(2013-12-05) Rea, MarlaEducators have long been challenged to close the achievement gap which exists between the general school population and linguistically diverse students. However, a disconnect persists between most secondary teachers and culturally and linguistically divergent students. Because of this disparity, the call for equity education becomes more arduous. The absence of culturally and linguistically diverse students in gifted and talented programs is a glaring indication that too few educators have the ability to look beyond their immediate paradigms. One way in which to increase diverse student representation is to provide teachers with additional instruments to assist in the identification of students? gifted tendencies. The Hispanic Bilingual Gifted Screening Instrument (HBGSI) is a tool specifically designed for teachers who may not be aware of cultural differences among themselves and Hispanic students. The goal of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the HBGSI with secondary Hispanic students in grades 6-12. Eleven secondary teachers answered the Hispanic Bilingual Gifted Screening Instrument with their ELL Hispanic students (n=101) in mind. Findings showed a correlation among students identified by teachers as gifted and those who passed the state required reading/language arts test. This study also examined the psychometric properties of the HBGSI within grades 6-12, whereas former studies have included grades kindergarten through fourth grade students. This investigation revealed the eleven components of the instrument can be loaded into three identifying dimensions: a) Student Awareness and Initiative, b) Tangible and Intangible Student Influences, and c) Student Communicative Language. Exploratory analysis of the HBGSI?s psychometric properties examines whether a concurrent validity exists when compared with another non-verbal measurement (NNAT2) for giftedness. Implications from this study demonstrated that the screening instrument, HBGSI, may be considered a viable tool to help secondary teachers identify gifted potential among Hispanic English learners.Item The Psychometric Properties of the Hispanic Bilingual Gifted Screening Instrument (HBGSI)(2012-02-14) Contreras-Vanegas, Alma LindaThe psychometric properties of the Hispanic Bilingual Gifted Screening Instrument (HBGSI) were investigated in this study. The participants in the study were a part of a large 4-year longitudinal randomized study titled English Language and Literacy Acquisition (Project ELLA), which focused on an urban school district located in. The purpose of this study was to investigate (a) the inter-rater reliability of HBGSI data for Hispanic students over a 4-year period of time; (b) the concurrent validity of the HBGSI and the WLPB-R Verbal Analogies subtests measured at the kindergarten level; (c) what clusters best predicted the NNAT over a 4-year period (K-3); and (d) what clusters best predicted the WLPB-R Verbal Analogies subtest at the kindergarten level in English and Spanish. Results demonstrated further validation of the psychometric properties of the HBGSI. The HBGSI was found to have an inter-rater reliability throughout the 4-year ELLA study. It was also found in this study that five HBGSI clusters significantly predicted the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test (NNAT), seven HBGSI clusters were found to significantly predict the Woodcock Language Proficiency Battery-Revised (WLPB-R) Verbal Analogies subtest in English, and one HBGSI cluster significantly predicted the Spanish version of the WLPB-R Verbal Analogies subtest. Results further showed a fairly high concurrent validity between the HBGSI and the WLPB-R Verbal Analogies subtests in English, and a high concurrent validity between the HBGSI and the WLPB-R Verbal Analogies subtests in Spanish. Overall, this study further validated that the HBGSI holds promise in screening potential Hispanic gifted and talented students in the elementary grades.