University of Missouri, St. Louis IRL @ UMSL Dissertations UMSL Graduate Works 6-15-2018 Estimating WASI IQ Scores to Assist in Identifying Elementary School Gifted Students Debra Garrett rP egler University of Missouri-St. Louis,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://irl.umsl.edu/dissertation Part of the Counseling Psychology Commons, Counselor Education Commons, Educational Psychology Commons, Elementary Education Commons, Elementary Education and Teaching Commons, Gifted Education Commons, Other Teacher Education and Professional Development Commons, School Psychology Commons, and the Student Counseling and Personnel Services Commons Recommended Citation Pregler, Debra Garrett, "Estimating WASI IQ Scores to Assist in Identifying Elementary School Gifted Students" (2018). Dissertations. 772. https://irl.umsl.edu/dissertation/772 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the UMSL Graduate Works at IRL @ UMSL. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of IRL @ UMSL. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. ESTIMATING WASI IQ SCORES TO ASSIST IN IDENTIFYING Estimating WASI IQ Scores to Assist in Identifying Elementary School Gifted Students Debra Garrett Pregler B.S.B.A., Accounting, University of Arkansas, 1978 M.Ed., Counseling, University of Missouri – St. Louis, 1997 A Dissertation Submitted to The Graduate School at the University of Missouri – St. Louis in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Education with an emphasis in Counseling August 2018 Advisory Committee Mark Pope, Ed.D. Chairperson Susan A. Kashubeck-West, Ph.D. M. Lee Nelson, Ph.D. Jan Munro, Ed.D. Copyright, Debra Garrett Pregler, 2018 ESTIMATING WASI IQ SCORES TO ASSIST IN IDENTIFYING ii Abstract Identifying gifted students early is important so they may receive adaptations in their learning environment including admittance into gifted programs (Subotnik, Olszweski- Kubilius, & Worrell, 2012).