InView Test Results...what next??

[Anonymous]

Everyone should get a letter to apply.

[Anonymous]

The paragraph regarding reading says:

"Reading Instruction Recommendation
The staff recommends that your child begin the year in an instructional reading group using:
Leveled text identified as "above" the marking period and/or grade level targets
- Instruction for students working in this group includes: the use of challenging grade-level and above-grade-level texts during small group instruction. Select lessons from William and Mary lessons and Junior Great Books lessons also may be implemented as appropriate to meet reading needs."

Followed by two paragraphs describing The William and Mary Language Arts, and The Junior Great Books.

[Anonymous]

Your school will probably tell you that DC is already getting accelerated instruction...but it can't hurt to ask

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Similar to what other PPs said, this just lets you know that your child was identified as "gifted." Next year, if you want, you can apply for the highly gifted center.

There will be a letter that goes out that identifies your child as a candidate and you go to an info session. I think everyone can apply though but not sure if everyone gets the invite to the info session (someone else can confirm or correct if their child got a letter but was not labelled as gifted). Once you go to the info session, you fill out a form saying why you want your child to go to the HGC and then your child will be scheduled to take a test in Jan/Feb? (if I recall correctly) and then they start gathering other info for the application, such as teacher reviews (you don't see these). They make decisions and send letters out right around spring break and then you can go to an info session and have to decide. The turnaround time for a decision is tight and your child will also get a tour but it may not be before you have to decide (you can say yes and then change your mind if your child really doesn't want to go after the tour).

So, nothing to do now other than file it away. Decisions to apply to HGC will start next year.

[Anonymous]

High 90's in 4 sections but 45 in quantitative analogies. Anyone know specifics about the content of that section?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:High 90's in 4 sections but 45 in quantitative analogies. Anyone know specifics about the content of that section?

I don't but my kid kind of had the same thing...80's and 90's in everything, including a 96 in verbal context...and then 52 in verbal words? How does that happen? Who knows....

[Anonymous]

The analogies were picture analogies - so you had to be able to look at pictures 1 and 2, figure out the relationship between the two pictures, look at the 3rd picture and then select one of the 4 multiple choices that related to the 3rd picture as 1 had related to 2. There was a time limit, many kids had never done an analogy before, it's easy to make interpretive errors in the pictures (e.g., is it a pencil or a crayon).

The Words test presented children with a continuum of words, and the child's task was to pick the word in the middle of the continuum from among the multiple choices. So, for example, the words might be cool .... freezing. And the answer choices might be cold, arctic, firey and yellow.

[Anonymous]

Oops! pp ^^ that should read "as 2 had related to 1"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some schools are 100% gifted. Welcome to the top half of moco.

Really? Some schools are 100% gifted? Is this data somewhere? Genuinely curious.

[Anonymous]

In our experience, kids did well in InView, with the letter stating that children should be offered advanced instruction, and absolutely nothing happens. Just more wasted instructional days for another standardized test, in my opinion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In our experience, kids did well in InView, with the letter stating that children should be offered advanced instruction, and absolutely nothing happens. Just more wasted instructional days for another standardized test, in my opinion.

Well as pp stated if your child did well on the inview it is probably because they were already doing well in school. This means that at a minimum they might be on grade level with acceleration/enrichment. For example, if you child is in the top reading group and off the charts then they probably did well on the inview reading portion. That means they will continue to be in higher level reading groups in 3rd grade (junior great books, etc.)

I look at it as more of a confirmation than some threshold where all of a sudden you will get a ton of acceleration. Its probably slightly different for math though.

[Anonymous]

Our experience is the same. 99 on inview still in top reading group (but not given anything special), still given same math worksheets and homework. Absolutely nothing changed.

I will say, it was nice to see the data that we weren't crazy that DS was advanced since the school managed to successfully hide that for 3 years but giving him no opportunities to excel. And they hid the MAP-P results that showed the same and we didn't know to ask for them.

[Anonymous]

Received inview results and under Gifted designation decision, it is written as "No Decision", what does that mean? got above 95 in all subtests except one in 80's.
Emailed the teacher, waiting for the reply....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Received inview results and under Gifted designation decision, it is written as "No Decision", what does that mean? got above 95 in all subtests except one in 80's.
Emailed the teacher, waiting for the reply....

Typo--happened to a friend's child last year.

[Anonymous]

This question comes up every year. Data entry error. Your child qualifies.