Yeah now it's just what some moron teacher with nothing more than an undergrad degree and a 120 IQ thinks. |
Right. Parents get what they deserve. And so do kids. |
Well, I have a book of questions so it definitely exists. Look, the test is not an accurate measure of intelligence. If schools require something so ridiculous to assess a child at the age of 7 or 8, then they deserve what they get. |
That’s ridiculous! The WISC is much more correlated with giftedness than the CogAT. |
I agree! However I thought there was definitely some sense that AAP isn’t truly a program limited to “gifted” children in the sense of the description relating to neurodiversity and all the other factors, ie asynchronous development etc, that can go along with it. Given the size of the program my understanding was it also encompasses many bright, well-performing children that may not meet the traditional criteria associated with the gifted label. |
FCPS knows that parents with some extra money are more likely to prep for the CogAT and the WiSC. They don’t trust the test results because parents are prepping their kids. The scores are invalidated by prep and the schools know this. So they don’t use the scores any more. |
If you sent your kid to ‘fun puzzle time’ that means that you’ve made him solve many such fun puzzles. There is a reason why the western world’s iq scores are plateauing, because all the intellectual activities we do with our kids are essentially prepping. |
Would you tell your child not to prepare for (or at least familiarize themselves with) the SAT/ACT/LSAT or whatever other standardized test they were taking because you want the college or institution to "truly evaluate" your child so their results are valid? |
Fwiw, while the unprepared WISC correlates with giftedness, the unprepped Cogat correlates better with academic success. Until y'all outsmarted yourselves and ruined the test, the Cogat was a really good test and predictor. Oh well. |
Even with prepping, the WISC is more accurate than the CogAT which is much more accurate than teacher ratings |