When do Cogat scores come back?

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Anonymous wrote:The inconsistency of cogat score delivery is killing me😭 the usps scan shows nothing from fcps is being delivered today. I guess I will keep refreshing parentvue then

+1 I am not sure why they would do it this way. If the notices can go out at once, why not the scores too?

Each school requires its own calculation. This seems much more effort to get out than a test that every second grader took.

What do you mean? Why would each school require "it's own calculation"?

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Anonymous wrote:One of my facebook memories today is a comment that a search to understand what this NNAT thing was online brought up test centers for the NNAT. I was very surprised at this find. We had no clue what the NNAT was or that there was an AAP program, the research was an eye opener for us. Yeah, the test centers are real and there are enough of them that you know that people are using them.

Different schools have different vibes. Ours was not focused on LIV but we were at an immersion program that did not have LLIV. There are very few families whose kids attend outside enrichment. There is an occasional Odyssey of the Mind or math club when there is a parent who really wants to lead one. Many of the kids move into LIV classes in MS and take Algebra 1 in 7th grade and do very well in those classes. But parents are ok with a B in Algebra 1. Most of the kids will end up in AP/IB classes in HS and go to good colleges.

Honestly, I am glad that we landed where we did because I cannot imagine being at a school where kids are worrying about being in AAP or not and stressing about grades and tests in ES. And yes, our kid was one of the rare ones who attended math outside school at his ES, he loves the math competition program at RSM. He enjoys STEM summer camps. His friends think that he is a bit crazy for doing extra math. He thinks it is crazy that his classmates are talking about Geometry in the summer because there are camps and the pool and fun things that you can do.

But yeah, test prep centers for kids to take the NNAT and CoGAT still cause me to scratch my head in confusion. But that is why the tests hold little weight in the process now. Eventually the iReady will hold little weight because people are prepping for the iReadys.

I may be naive here, but can you really prep for the iReady and get an inflated score? For example, if a kid doesn't can't do math above grade level, then familiarizing them with the question types at home would ensure that they get grade level problems correct. It would not result in a very high score because the child is maxing out only on grade level math questions. It seems like this would, however, be a truer indicator of where the child is performing because the child wouldn't miss questions covering math concepts that they do understand.

To score high on the iReady, woudn't the parent have to actually teach their child math or hire someone else to teach their kid math? And if so, that's not prepping for the iReady. That's math enrichment at home.

Sunshine does iready prep, which essentially would be (I would imagine) preteaching a lot of math skills/knowledge that would be assessed by the iready (and perhaps teaching them to check answers and not rush ahead in order to get to the games!) I suspect a lot of kids lose points simple by not being test savvy.

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Anonymous wrote:I saw somewhere that prepping, even extensively, can really only buy you a few points on the CogAT. I say this as someone who thought about it, and did some workbooks at home with my kids.

I really don't think this is true. We worked through 3 practice tests and I could tell by the mistakes made that more prep may have benefited DC. But alas, my motivation to prop up DC's test score had its limits. I found it ethical/acceptable to ensure DC understood how these sorts of tests work, but did not want to provide extensive practice so that the score would be meaningless as an assessment of reasoning ability.

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Has ANYONE received CogAT scores this year through ParentVUE?

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Is there a chance I do not receive anything in mail or backpack folder today? Parentvue is not updated as of now

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Anonymous wrote:Has ANYONE received CogAT scores this year through ParentVUE?

sure haven't. driving me crazy.

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Not on parent vue, but arrived in the mail today. VQN of 136 and did not get an in pool notification.

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Not in backpack binder. No mail either. We will not find out the cogat score until after winter break?

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Anonymous wrote:Not on parent vue, but arrived in the mail today. VQN of 136 and did not get an in pool notification.

I don't have scores yet but am confused about why some provide an overall score and others a VQN. Are some scores more important than others?

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Anonymous wrote:Not on parent vue, but arrived in the mail today. VQN of 136 and did not get an in pool notification.

I don't have scores yet but am confused about why some provide an overall score and others a VQN. Are some scores more important than others?

VQN is the overall score.

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Anonymous wrote:Not in backpack binder. No mail either. We will not find out the cogat score until after winter break?

FCPS website says they will be distributed to parent before winter break. FWIW. So maybe after school phones are off, they will post to ParentVue?

https://www.fcps.edu/academics/student-tests-assessments/grade-level-tests

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I hope so. Why do they have to do it last minute?

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Anonymous wrote:Not in backpack binder. No mail either. We will not find out the cogat score until after winter break?

FCPS website says they will be distributed to parent before winter break. FWIW. So maybe after school phones are off, they will post to ParentVue?

https://www.fcps.edu/academics/student-tests-assessments/grade-level-tests

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:The inconsistency of cogat score delivery is killing me😭 the usps scan shows nothing from fcps is being delivered today. I guess I will keep refreshing parentvue then

+1 I am not sure why they would do it this way. If the notices can go out at once, why not the scores too?

Each school requires its own calculation. This seems much more effort to get out than a test that every second grader took.

What do you mean? Why would each school require "it's own calculation"?

Bc “in m-pool” is based on local norms, which means, in-pool score is calculated at each individual elementary.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The inconsistency of cogat score delivery is killing me😭 the usps scan shows nothing from fcps is being delivered today. I guess I will keep refreshing parentvue then

+1 I am not sure why they would do it this way. If the notices can go out at once, why not the scores too?

Each school requires its own calculation. This seems much more effort to get out than a test that every second grader took.

What do you mean? Why would each school require "it's own calculation"?

Bc “in-pool” is based on local norms, which means, in-pool score is calculated at each individual elementary.

* corrected my typo

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Anonymous wrote:Not on parent vue, but arrived in the mail today. VQN of 136 and did not get an in pool notification.

I don't have scores yet but am confused about why some provide an overall score and others a VQN. Are some scores more important than others?

Not for in-pool, but in the past they weighted the quantitative subsection score the most. They're also going to look at the profile (how many scores are at what stanine).