Neumeister and Burney (educational psychology and gifted education, Ball State U.) show administrators and coordinators how to design, conduct, and report on an in-house evaluation of a school's gifted program. They focus on areas of intellectual giftedness and specific academic domains and address comprehensive gifted programming, detailing how to assess six core elements: program design, the identification process, curriculum and instruction, the affective dimension (counseling and guidance), professional development, and program effectiveness. They explain how to set up an internal evaluation, and describe best practices, guiding evaluation questions and suggested data sources, and sample survey items, interview questions, checklists, forms, and instruments. Appendices contain reproducible worksheets, surveys, and resources (also available online). The book references the National Association for Gifted Children Pre-K-Grade 12 Gifted Programming Standards. There is no index. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)