<font color='black' size='2' face='arial'>It is not<font size="2"> a requirement yet; however, when the new operating standards are in place there will be requirements for whole grade screening. Some districts may be choosing to go ahead now to pull up their gifted input scores. <br>
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<div dir="ltr">We give the IOWA and the CogAT to all enrolled 2nd and 4th graders in our district.</div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;color:#000000" size="+1" color="#000000" face="Arial">Are districts required to give a whole-grade ability screener? This has never been an issue before, but I have a district this year that wants to administer achievement screeners at two grade levels instead of achievement at one grade level(s) and ability at other grade level(sf).</font></div>
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