Discover high-ability students and meet their unique needs.
Identify gifted students at your school and create tailored enrichment programs to meet their needs. Help them make their biggest impact.
The gifted student ability measure tests focus on advanced higher-order thinking skills and are normed against thousands of Australian students, allowing a wide breadth of analysis.
Gifted Student Ability Measure (GSAM) tests
Meet the needs of
your brightest students
Ensure your high-achievers are working on the content and skills suitable for their level.
Keep them interested and developing in line with their exceptional abilities.
Create gifted and high-ability programs with confidence
Accurately pinpoint the very best students at your school with above-level testing, allowing you to confidently place them in your gifted and talented programs.
Formalise and
strengthen enrichment
Formalise your enrichment programs for parents and show them exactly why their talented children are included, and what you’re doing to help them grow.
“The gifted and talented test gives me rich insights into how my students are performing”
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Tested skills and subjects for our gifted and talented tests
Writing
Learning areas tested:
- Genre/structure
- Arguments
- Vocabulary
- Sentence structure and cohesion
- Syntax/tense
- Punctuation
- Spelling
Reading comprehension
Learning areas tested:
- Remembering info
- Locating details
- Analysing text
- Evaluating info
- Deriving/drawing conclusions
- Combining info
Mathematics
Learning areas tested:
- Numbers
- Measurements
- Space and geometry
- Data
- Patterns and algebra
- Working mathematically
Reasoning
Learning areas tested:
- Verbal reasoning
- Mathematical reasoning
- Figural reasoning
- Spatial reasoning
Help your gifted and talented students fulfill their potential
Our gifted assessment tests help to strengthen your enrichment programs and ensure that your brightest students are getting the education they need.
Assess literacy, numeracy and reasoning skills to get a strong understanding of student ability.
Discern between the very highest-performing students to select the right candidates for your enrichment programs.
Analyse performance for entire cohorts to narrow down students and delve into their specific results to make informed selections.
Get clear normative scores for students to easily discern between the highest achievers.
Create automatic classes based on ability and edit as required.
Re-assess students annually to track their long-term growth and ensure your programs are having an impact.
End-to-end management of your gifted assessment tests
We’ll handle your gifted and talented exams from start to finish, including:
Setup
Send us your students’ details, and we’ll arrange and set up your gifted and talented exams, ready for test day.
Delivery
We’ll invigilate the exams to ensure integrity for both paper-based and online tests.
Marking
We’ll mark every assessment against its success criteria, including manual marking for Writing.
Reporting
We’ll populate your reporting system and provide you with one-on-one training on how to get the best insights.
Our gifted assessment tests are created by skilled former educators
Our team has extensive experience creating unique gifted and talented tests for K-12 schools. The tests are taken by thousands of students each year, helping you discern the very brightest in your school.
What do our gifted and talented tests look like?
Our gifted and talented tests are comprised of multiple-choice or long-form questions (depending on the subject). They are unique for each year level.
Depending on your school’s preference, they can be delivered online or in-person. The tests tend to be around 50 minutes long.
Clear reports that help you select the brightest students
We provide a variety of pre-made, customisable reports that illustrate the performance of your students, hosted in our interactive online portal.
Clearly identify high-achieving students
Quickly discern between the highest-performing students in your school, based on composite scores for maths, reading, writing and reasoning. Easily pick the most gifted students for enrichment.
Raw scores, means, stanines and more
Delve into the specifics of the results for students, classes or the entire cohort, to understand where their strengths lie and inform your enrichment processes.
Skill profiles to evaluate learning areas
Dive deeper into performance for specific skill areas to learn which types of extension classes are needed.
Frequently asked questions
Our pricing varies depending on volume and the services you need. Please contact us to chat about your requirements.
You can request a date that best suits your school’s needs.
Testing is held in two sessions over one morning. Total test time including directions and a recess break is 3 hours 45 minutes. Special provisions can be catered for e.g. large print etc.
We score the gifted student ability measure tests, validate the scoring and produce the reports within 10 working days. Reports are electronic (on our reporting system) but can also be sent as hard copies if required.
You can export both the results data to CSV as well as student/parent personal information, such as their email addresses for mail merges.
Get in touch to learn more about our gifted and talented tests, and how they can help you discover high-achieving students and cater to their unique needs
