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Gifted Education: Acronyms and Abbreviations
AAGC -- American Association for Gifted Children
AAUW -- American Association of University Women
ACT, SAT -- College Board Exams
AEGUS -- Association for the Education of Gifted Underachieving Students
ALPS -- Autonomous Learning Publications and Specialists
AP -- Advanced Placement
ASCD -- Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
BOCES -- Boards of Cooperative Educational Services
BOE -- Board of Education or Body of Evidence
BVAT -- Bilingual Verbal Ability Test
CAG/T -- Colorado Association for Gifted and Talented
CASE -- Colorado Association of School Executives
C and I -- Curriculum and Instruction
CCIRA -- Colorado Council of the International Reading Association
CCR -- Colorado Code of Regulations
CDE -- Colorado Department of Education
CEC -- Council for Exceptional Children
CPM -- Raven's Colored Progressive Matrices Test
CSEF (ISEF) -- Colorado (International) Science and Engineering Fair
CogAT -- Cognitive Abilities Test
DAC -- District Advisory Committee
DAAC -- District Accountability Advisory Committee
DI -- Destination Imagination or Differentiated Instruction
ERIC -- Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children
ETA -- Educational Teaching Aids
GCQ -- Gifted Child Quarterly
IB -- International Baccalaureate
IEP -- Individual Education Plan
KOI -- Kingore Observation Inventory
NAGC -- National Association of Gifted Children
NCT (M,E) -- National Council of Teachers of (Mathematics, English, etc.)
NEA -- National Education Association
NNAT -- Naglieri Nonverbal Abilities test
OCR - Office of Civil Rights
OERI -- Office of Educational Research and Improvement
OM -- Odyssey of the Mind
PERA -- Public Employees Retirement Association
PSAT/NMSQT -- Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test
PSO -- Post-Secondary Option
PTO -- Parent Teacher Organization
RFP -- Request for Proposals
RMTS -- Rocky Mountain Talent Search (located locally at the University of Denver)
SAMI -- Science and Math Initiatives, a WWW page to support teachers by centralizing quality math and science resources on the net
SAPP -- Substance Abuse Prevention Program
SEM -- Schoolwide Enrichment Model
SEP -- Summer Enrichment Program (located at the University of Northern Colorado)
SI -- School Improvement
SPM -- Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices Test
WWW -- World Wide Web, the comprehensive webpages on the Internet
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