What is a good GBRS score?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Poster at 10:10, you are talking out of your ass. You have no idea regarding gbrs. I am an AART who has sat on the committees that decide aap and there is no average gbrs that means one's child is admitted. High scores means gbrs is irrelevant , lower scores then the whole package matters. Please remember that the gbrs is extremely subjective.

10:10 here -- the information I posted is from Dr. Carol Horn. Are you suggesting Dr. Horn is "talking out of her ass?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 4th grader has VQN 138 , what are the chances.

What else has he/she got? One score on one test doesn't tell the whole story.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply.

He has all 4 on his report card. Can not tell about his GBRS and other things now. His quantitative score on Cogat is 148.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Average GBRS score for students found Center eligible has historically been a 12

+1

Also posted on an older thread:


http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/25/293944.page#3332252

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a side note, the GBRS commentary can only say positive things so if you elect to get a copy, you will note it will only have positive comments in it. If you see sparse positive comments and an 8 or a 9 you will understand it better. Each year there are always parents who post questions on this board asking why their kid only got an 8, 9 or 10, etc. when their were only positive comments. There can only be only positive comments in the commentary. It is the lack of extensive positive comments that is telling.

An 8 or 9 means that the student is only exhibiting targeted "gifted behaviors" some of the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for the reply.

He has all 4 on his report card. Can not tell about his GBRS and other things now. His quantitative score on Cogat is 148.

What is the composite score?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for the reply.

He has all 4 on his report card. Can not tell about his GBRS and other things now. His quantitative score on Cogat is 148.

4's on the report card only mean he is meeting the benchmark for curriculum. It means nothing about his ability. I know of someone with a 150 FSIQ who was not meeting benchmarks....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for the reply.

He has all 4 on his report card. Can not tell about his GBRS and other things now. His quantitative score on Cogat is 148.

What is the composite score?

138

[Anonymous]

With a composite 138, he's well above the screening pool level (obviously). I'd say it's pretty likely he'll get in, but the GBRS will be the deciding factor. Did you submit any of the supplemental materials?

[Anonymous]

Also, remember parent questionnaire is very important too.
You might have seen lot of gifted behavior in your kids at home which you can pick and explain in this questionnaire.

AAP Committee will review this too.

[Anonymous]

I think above a 12 is great.

The scores are in 4 parts.
A 16 is "perfect:"
A 12 could be 3/4 in each category.

A 10 or lower would need some high stuff in other ares to make up for the fact the child didn't knock the socks off the teacher, but sometimes kids who are gifted don't so well in class b/c the curriculum isn't stimulating enough. Maybe they'd do better (be 14s or 16s) if they had more interesting things to do...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think above a 12 is great.

The scores are in 4 parts.
A 16 is "perfect:"
A 12 could be 3/4 in each category.

A 10 or lower would need some high stuff in other ares to make up for the fact the child didn't knock the socks off the teacher, but sometimes kids who are gifted don't so well in class b/c the curriculum isn't stimulating enough. Maybe they'd do better (be 14s or 16s) if they had more interesting things to do...

*eyeroll* except the score is looking at what sorts of internal motivation, innate desire to learn, and intellectual curiosity the child has these are things that you can't necessarily be coached

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The question says it all...

A good score is a score that truly represents your kid's abilities. For various reasons not all scores are good -- just like any ratings. Some are inflated because kids are likeable and eager. Some are inaccurate because child is quiet and teacher doesn't have enough visibility into their thinking process.

Fortunately, the process doesn't look at any one thing in isolation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think above a 12 is great.

The scores are in 4 parts.
A 16 is "perfect:"
A 12 could be 3/4 in each category.

A 10 or lower would need some high stuff in other ares to make up for the fact the child didn't knock the socks off the teacher, but sometimes kids who are gifted don't so well in class b/c the curriculum isn't stimulating enough. Maybe they'd do better (be 14s or 16s) if they had more interesting things to do...

This was our DS. He got a 10 on the GBRS. He was bored out of his mind in Gen Ed and definitely did not impress the teacher.
He's at a center school now and I can see that he's just like all the other kids in his class- surely some of those other kids scored way more than 10s on theirs.
If his former teacher and his former AART who gave him a 10 on the GBRS can only see him now. Once he got challenged on the curriculum, his spark definitely came out.
Without us even asking, his well-seasoned AAP teacher said he's definitely in the right place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think above a 12 is great.

The scores are in 4 parts.
A 16 is "perfect:"
A 12 could be 3/4 in each category.

A 10 or lower would need some high stuff in other ares to make up for the fact the child didn't knock the socks off the teacher, but sometimes kids who are gifted don't so well in class b/c the curriculum isn't stimulating enough. Maybe they'd do better (be 14s or 16s) if they had more interesting things to do...

This was our DS. He got a 10 on the GBRS. He was bored out of his mind in Gen Ed and definitely did not impress the teacher.
He's at a center school now and I can see that he's just like all the other kids in his class- surely some of those other kids scored way more than 10s on theirs.
If his former teacher and his former AART who gave him a 10 on the GBRS can only see him now. Once he got challenged on the curriculum, his spark definitely came out.
Without us even asking, his well-seasoned AAP teacher said he's definitely in the right place.

Agree same is true in my DC's case as well.