Did WISC help your appeal?

[Anonymous]

DS did not get accepted and so in an effort to submit new material and make the case for an appeal we are planning in him taking a WISC. We will work on student samples and the questionnaire but my question is does the WISC actually help?

[Anonymous]

If test scores are already high the most important thing may be what you write in the cover letter to address why they need full time AAP, it may be what’s lacking at the school , for us we didn’t have access to advanced math until 5th but child scored almost perfect on Cogat quantatative. Address the HOPE areas if low.

[Anonymous]

WISC helped in our appeal but DC had 1 lower outlier score and we knew there was an issue on that testing day in that section. That one area ended up being a 99% on wisc, which was supported by high iready and work samples.

[Anonymous]

If we submit a WISC to counter low test scores, do I also need to go through the process of trying to get more work samples? DS mainly works on the computer so I have a really hard time sourcing colorful, handwritten work these days.

[Anonymous]

Work samples can be from online. We submitted a power point project

[Anonymous]

How? My DS routinely makes 50+ slide PPT presentations. I'm looking at a google site he made now and there's about 20 different pages to click on from the main page. It's picture heavy with a lot of captions so I just don't see how I could translate it to a nice printout.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How? My DS routinely makes 50+ slide PPT presentations. I'm looking at a google site he made now and there's about 20 different pages to click on from the main page. It's picture heavy with a lot of captions so I just don't see how I could translate it to a nice printout.

You can do a print to PDF, and select 2 pages per sheet or 4 pages per sheet. You can also select non-consecutive pages by input page numbers into custom range in the printout box.

Last Dec I submitted work sample with condensed 4 in 1 page, and AART said at most 2 in 1 page which I did. The school work sample is also 2 pages in 1, such as two work samples are scanned into 1 pdf page. But to appeal board you can do 4 in one page and see what they say. It's basically throwing everything and the kitchen sink to see what sticks.

[Anonymous]

You can print PowerPoint with 8/10 slides per page

[Anonymous]

you have 5 pages of work samples

[Anonymous]

If you already have a high cogat, it proves your test score. You probably need better work samples

[Anonymous]

You need to address the weakest part of your child's file in the appeal. If it's the test scores, a high WISC would help. Keep in mind, though, that it's likely your child will earn a similar score on the WISC that they did on the CogAT. Sometimes, kids get low scores on the CogAT and then end up with a 130+ WISC, but that's not typical.

If the CogAT scores were high, but iready was low, I'd look for an achievement test accepted by FCPS.

If the CogAT was around 130+, and the iready scores were 95th percentile +, I don't think new test scores are likely to help your case. I'd focus instead on a parent letter and better work samples.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You need to address the weakest part of your child's file in the appeal. If it's the test scores, a high WISC would help. Keep in mind, though, that it's likely your child will earn a similar score on the WISC that they did on the CogAT. Sometimes, kids get low scores on the CogAT and then end up with a 130+ WISC, but that's not typical.

If the CogAT scores were high, but iready was low, I'd look for an achievement test accepted by FCPS.

If the CogAT was around 130+, and the iready scores were 95th percentile +, I don't think new test scores are likely to help your case. I'd focus instead on a parent letter and better work samples.

Good info, COGAT was 133, IReady verbal was a disaster. What’s an achievement test that FCPS would accept?

[Anonymous]

It's mostly about if you are a minority

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's mostly about if you are a minority

It's not. This is demonstrably untrue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You need to address the weakest part of your child's file in the appeal. If it's the test scores, a high WISC would help. Keep in mind, though, that it's likely your child will earn a similar score on the WISC that they did on the CogAT. Sometimes, kids get low scores on the CogAT and then end up with a 130+ WISC, but that's not typical.

If the CogAT scores were high, but iready was low, I'd look for an achievement test accepted by FCPS.

If the CogAT was around 130+, and the iready scores were 95th percentile +, I don't think new test scores are likely to help your case. I'd focus instead on a parent letter and better work samples.

Good info, COGAT was 133, IReady verbal was a disaster. What’s an achievement test that FCPS would accept?

Kaufman.