screen out children who most need special attention. Use of GRS in public education 2007-08 New York City Department of Education adopted the use of GRS as a one-third component for gaining admission to pre-K through 3 Gifted & Talented programs. The other two-thirds component was the OLSAT. This was the only year that the GRS was used. Beginning 2008–09, the DOE replaced the GRS with Bracken School Readiness Assessment and changed the BSRA/OLSAT weighting to 25/75. 2011-12 Atlanta Public School System adopted the use of GRS as a pre-qualitifiying process for automatic testing of students for the Gifted & Talented programs. Editions 3rd ed. — Gifted Rating Scales (GRS) (2003) External links Dr. Pfeiffer's website at Florida State University Post doctoral brief of Dr. Jarosewich's research at Duke University Press Release about NYC adopting the GRS at FSU News Archive See also Rating scale References Student assessment and evaluation Giftedness