Using DIBELS next reading fluency or Text Reading and Comprehension assessments to identify gifted students

The purpose of this research study is to determine if the DIBELS assessments and the TRC assessments can accurately identify students into a gifted language arts program. The results of this study demonstrate that DIBELS and TRC neither could accurately place students into a gifted program that uses a sound, researched identification process. One DIBELS subtest, Letter Naming Fluency (LNF) did show some promise, but even that subtest would not be effective enough to use for this purpose.