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Universal screening increases the representation of low-income and minority students in gifted education
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Significance: A longstanding concern about gifted education in the United States is the underrepresentation of minorities and economically disadvantaged groups. One explanation for this gap is that standard processes for identifying gifted students, which are based largely on the referrals of parents and teachers, tend to miss many qualified students. Consistent with this hypothesis, we find that a universal screening program in a large urban school district led to significant increases in the numbers of poor and minority students who met the IQ standards for gifted status. Our findings raise the question of whether a systemic failure to identify qualified students from all backgrounds may help explain the broader pattern of minority underrepresentation in all advanced K−12 academic programs.
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A large Florida district introduced universal NNAT screening for second graders in spring 2005 without changing gifted eligibility standards. It substantially increased gifted identification among low-income, Black, Hispanic, ELL, and female students, suggesting traditional parent/teacher referral systems underrefer qualified disadvantaged students.
Key findings
- Overall gifted share among third graders rose from 3.3% to 5.5%; the trend-adjusted increase was 1.5 ppt (SE 0.3), an odds ratio of 1.451, or a 45% increase in the odds of being identified as gifted. School-level difference-in-differences was 1.6 ppt (SE 0.3).
- Plan B eligible students’ gifted share rose from 1.4% to 4.3% (OR 2.743, a 174% increase), while Plan A students rose from 5.1% to 6.6% (OR 1.108, 11%). Odds rose by 74% for Black students (OR 1.741) and 118% for Hispanic students (OR 2.183), versus 12% for White students (OR 1.123).
- Newly identified gifted students (“compliers”) were about 80% Plan B eligible; compared with always takers, they were disproportionately Black (23% vs. 12%), Hispanic (46% vs. 16%), FRL (67% vs. 20%), ELL (18% vs. 2%), female (56% vs. 45%), and less likely to have English-speaking parents (29% vs. 74%), while only 8% were White vs. 61% of always takers.
- Among Plan B students, compliers had similar mean IQ scores to always takers (124.5 vs. 124.2; difference 0.38), and 20% of compliers had IQs of 130 or higher vs. 25% of always takers. All 140 larger elementary schools had at least one gifted third grader in 2006 or 2007, whereas 13 schools had none in 2004 or 2005.
Methods
- Natural experiment/interrupted time series using deidentified District longitudinal records. Sample: third graders in 2004–2007 at 140 larger elementary schools; full sample n = 78,065, Plan B sample n = 37,947. Pre cohorts were 2004–2005; post cohorts were 2006–2007. Universal screening began spring 2005 for second graders using the Naglieri Non-Verbal Ability Test (NNAT), with unchanged IQ thresholds (130 for Plan A; 116 for Plan B).
- Analysis compared gifted shares pre/post, estimated trend-adjusted linear probability and logit odds-ratio models, and used difference-in-differences with matched comparison schools from other Florida districts. Complier characteristics were estimated as the trend-adjusted change in the gifted share with a given characteristic divided by the trend-adjusted change in the gifted share; SEs were clustered by school.
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- Stated: the analysis covers only one school district, and the District’s distinctive features—nonverbal screening test, lower Plan B referral threshold, strict IQ thresholds, and relatively low baseline gifted rate around 3.5%—may limit generalizability.
- Stated/evident: the program was suspended in 2010 due to Great Recession funding cuts, and by 2011 the gifted share had returned to 2004–2005 levels; comparison schools also gradually increased gifted rates after 2007, complicating long-term inference.
- Evident: FRL and ELL status can change over time, so students may be classified as Plan B at referral but Plan A by the end of third grade; the pre/post design is not randomized, though the authors validate pre cohorts and use a matched comparison group.
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“The Plan B compliers are broadly similar to the Plan B always takers, but are 21 ppt.more likely to be Hispanic, and 27 ppt.less likely to have parents who speak English.”
§ low-income and minority students in gifted education > Characteristics of Newly Identified Gifted Students.
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“Newly identified gifted students were more likely to come from schools in poor neighborhoods with few gifted students, leading to a substantial equalization in gifted participation rates across schools.”
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“Looking at the last two rows of Table 3 for the Plan B group, the compliers have lower achievement scores than the always takers, but about the same mean IQ scores.”
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“However, apart from this group, many of the newly identified Plan A gifted students had IQ scores well above the minimum 130-point threshold.”
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“The characteristics of the Plan B compliers are quite similar to those of the overall complier group, reflecting the fact that 80% of all compliers are Plan B eligible.”
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“With the introduction of universal screening, the overall fraction of third graders with an IQ test rose by eight percentage points (ppt.), with a much larger gain for Plan B eligibleslarge enough to close the testing gap between the two groups.”
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“Virtually all those with IQ < 125 were classified as Plan B at the time of IQ testing but are Plan A by the end of third grade (mainly because they transition out of ELL status).”
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“On average, the newly identified students also had IQ scores that were similar to those of the always takers in the same eligibility group, although they had lower standardized achievement scores.”
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“overall impact for third graders translates into a 45% increase in the odds of being identified as gifted.”
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“the District's gifted student population in the early 2000s mainly comprised White children from higher-income neighborhoods.”
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“They also attended schools with relatively high fractions of FRL participants and non-White students, and they are somewhat more likely to be female (56% vs. 45%).”
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“[In the final column of Table 3, which shows the estimated differences in complier and always-taker characteristics, the estimates for the Black share (0.12) and the Hispanic share (0.30) differ significantly from the White share estimate of -0.53 (P < 0.01) but do not differ significantly from each other (P = 0.25).”
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“The fraction of third graders with IQs above the gifted threshold also rose in both groups, again with a larger increase among Plan B eligible students.”
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“In the Plan B group, the two distributions are similar-although the compliers are somewhat less likely to have scores very close to the 116 cutoff.”
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“Half of gifted students in the pre cohort were at schools that enrolled only 18% of the entire third-grade population, whereas half of all third-grade students in the District were at schools that enrolled a total of only 16% of the gifted students.”
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“Second, the District has strict IQ thresholds for eligibility, and, before the introduction of the screening program, the District had relatively low gifted rates (around 3.5% for third graders) that reflected the importance of the IQ thresholds.”
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“despite facing a lower threshold for gifted status, Plan B students were less likely than Plan A students to have an IQ score on record and were much less likely to be classified as gifted.”
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“The empirical mean and SD of the changes across the 22 other districts are -0.001 and 0.007.The observed change in the District is 2.65 SDs from the mean for the other districts”
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“the fraction of students classified as gifted also increased in both groups, rising from 5.1% to 6.6% among Plan A students and from 1.4% to 4.3% in the Plan B group.”
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“[In the final column of Table 3, which shows the estimated differences in complier and always-taker characteristics, the estimates for the Black share (0.12) and the Hispanic share (0.30) differ significantly from the White share estimate of -0.53 (P < 0.01) but do not differ significantly from each other (P = 0.25).”
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“The trend-adjusted difference (model 2) is 1.5 ppt.with an SE of 0.3 ppt., which is nearly identical to the difference-in-differences estimate.”
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“In particular, all 140 larger elementary schools in the District had at least one gifted third-grade student in 2006 or 2007, whereas, in 2004 and 2005, 13 schools had no gifted students.”
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“with a much larger gain for Plan B eligibleslarge enough to close the testing gap between the two groups.”
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“the newly identified gifted students were disproportionately poor, Black, and Hispanic, and less likely to have parents whose primary language was English.”
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“Thirteen regular elementary schools in the District had no gifted children in third grade in 2004 or 2005, but the gifted rate was nearly 10% at the 13 schools with the lowest fraction of FRL students.”
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“Teachers and parents may simply not recognize the abilities of many of these students.”
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“In interpreting the IQ gap, however, it is important to keep in mind that most compliers are Plan B eligible, and are therefore subject to a lower IQ threshold than the Plan A group who comprise most of the always takers.”
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“We confirm that the 2004-2005 (”
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“First, both the use of a nonverbal screening test and the lower Plan B referral threshold may have been important factors in the success of the District's screening program.”
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“An important limitation of our analysis is that it pertains to only a single school district.”
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“Any increase in the number of students identified as gifted following the introduction of the program can thus be attributed to the screening effort, and not to a relaxation of the standards for gifted status.”
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“the increase in IQ testing was presumably driven by a rise in referrals caused by the screening program”
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“A comparison of the newly identified gifted students to those who would have been identified even without screening shows that Black and Hispanic students, FRL participants, ELLs, and girls were all systematically”
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“More broadly, disadvantaged groups are significantly underrepresented in advanced academic programs at all levels of K-12 education (15).”
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“Comparisons of the newly identified gifted students with those who would have been placed in the absence of screening show that Blacks and Hispanics, free/reduced price lunch participants, English language learners, and girls were all systematically”
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“(It is also worth noting that while biases or disparate impact of IQ tests are a common concern, our findings are consistent with the argument often made by proponents of IQ testing that it can serve to limit biases associated with subjective judgment.”
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“Although the student population in the District is highly diverse, and arguably representative of the student population in many large urban districts, the District's gifted policies have a number of distinctive features.”
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“students in the two post cohorts are very similar to those in the two pre cohorts.”
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“The only notable difference is a small decline in the fraction of Whites, offset by small rises in the fractions of Blacks and Hispanics.”
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“At the same time, the combination of large impacts for Blacks and negligible effects for Whites suggests that factors related to race/culture may also play a role.”
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The District's student population is representative of the student population in many large urban districts.
“Although the student population in the District is highly diverse, and arguably representative of the student population in many large urban districts, the District's gifted policies have a number of distinctive features.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Card, D., & Giuliano, L.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- University of Miami (US)
- ORCID
- Card, David
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2016-11-15
- Volume
- 113
- Issue
- 48
- Pages
- 13678-13683
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC5137751
- OpenAlex
- W2154336198
- Semantic Scholar
- 487a55789f828746af73b010950ffea00e771447
- Cited by
- 343
- References
- 15
- Citations by year
- 2026: 125 · 2025: 29 · 2024: 29 · 2023: 38 · 2022: 32 · 2021: 37 · 2020: 25 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 2
- FWCI
- 32.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Grantee Submission
- Funders
- Institute of Ed (R305D110019)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › School Choice and Performance
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Critical Race Theory in Education
- Keywords
- gifted education, universal screening, underrepresentation, low-income students, minority students, English language learners, gender disparities, second grade students, urban school districts, eligibility criteria
- MeSH terms
- Child, Child, Gifted, Child, Preschool, Ethnicity, Female, Humans, Male, Mass Screening, Minority Groups, Socioeconomic Factors
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