Gifted Terminology Puzzle

2. The measure of how a person: (1) adapts to fluctuating situational demands, (2) reconfigures mental resources, (3) shifts perspective, and (4) balances competing desires, needs, and life domains.
3. An assessment that compares an individual’s results with a large group of individuals who have taken the same assessment (who are referred to as the “norming group”).
5. Evaluating student learning through the use of student portfolios, performance, or observations in place of or in conjunction with more traditional measures of performance such as tests and written assignments
8. An assessment that compares a student’s test performance to his or her mastery of a body of knowledge or specific skill rather than relating scores to the performance of other students.
12. well-grounded or justifiable; logically correct
14. a measure of how much measured test scores are spread around a “true” score

1. Consistently good in quality or performance; able to be trusted.
4. Any student who meets the initial eligibility criteria in this rule for gifted education services in one LEA shall be considered eligible to receive gifted education services in any LEA within the state
6. Tests designed to measure what students have already learned, mostly in specific content areas
7. The ability to generate words, ideas and mental associations to problems.
9. The idea should be something new that is not simply an extension of something else that already exists.
10. The collection of, analysis and interpretation of information about any aspect of a program or person
11. A cognitive learning strategy that involves any enhancement of information that clarifies or specifies the relationship between information to-be-learned and related information
13. Cognitive Abilities Test (COGAT) is used to test this area.
15. Used in education to explain how the progress of learning and the final learning outcomes of students are assessed.