Question about questionnaire to parents with children already in AAP

[Anonymous]

Did you mark all the questions on the questionnaire with 'consistently'? And then give an explanation.

The reason I'm asking is because I am just generally someone who is seriously handicapped in praising or presenting my child as gifted even though she is very smart. Maybe its because I come from a family where half the kids are child prodigies...seriously...talk bout becoming doctors before 20...Ugghh.
So my child is in pool with high scores on both tests but my AART encouraged everyone to fill in the questionnaire, and I don't want my inability to tout/praise my child to be the reason she does not get it. If I mark a few questions with Occasionally instead of frequently or Consistently, will that deter her placement?

[Anonymous]

Just be honest. If you're not, they will see through it. (Otherwise, everyone would mark 'consistently' and everyone would get in.)

[Anonymous]

You can absolutely mark them honestly. Test scores and GBRS by a teacher carry the most weight. The point of the questionnaire is to capture the parents impressions and perhaps you will be able to provide some insight into something about your kid the teachers haven't seen. That's what I did because their was no way my child was everything. For example, I seem to remember some leadership type questions and my kid was so shy that those statements would not have been true. They would also likely have conflicted with what his teachers said. I would not have been fooling anyone.

so trust your gut and your kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can absolutely mark them honestly. Test scores and GBRS by a teacher carry the most weight. The point of the questionnaire is to capture the parents impressions and perhaps you will be able to provide some insight into something about your kid the teachers haven't seen. That's what I did because their was no way my child was everything. For example, I seem to remember some leadership type questions and my kid was so shy that those statements would not have been true. They would also likely have conflicted with what his teachers said. I would not have been fooling anyone.

so trust your gut and your kid.

+1 (especially the bolded sentence)

[Anonymous]

CONSISTENTLY!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you mark all the questions on the questionnaire with 'consistently'? And then give an explanation.

The reason I'm asking is because I am just generally someone who is seriously handicapped in praising or presenting my child as gifted even though she is very smart. Maybe its because I come from a family where half the kids are child prodigies...seriously...talk bout becoming doctors before 20...Ugghh.
So my child is in pool with high scores on both tests but my AART encouraged everyone to fill in the questionnaire, and I don't want my inability to tout/praise my child to be the reason she does not get it. If I mark a few questions with Occasionally instead of frequently or Consistently, will that deter her placement?

Your relatives aren't the standard you should be comparing her to. Trying reading the questionnaire with the words "compared to her classmates" at the end of every statement. See if that changes anything. On the other hand, the committee might find your candor refreshing if you don't mark everything "consistently". I really think it's the examples that matter more than the rating on the parent questionnaire.

[Anonymous]

When we did the questionnaire several years ago, i was very conservative in my ratings. I was honest and maybe even under-rated my child because i didn't want to ruin my credibility and also i was reading 'consistently' to mean 'always.' What i think is MOST useful is to be able to give specific examples rather than broad generalizations.

[Anonymous]

PP here. Forgot to mention my child got in despite my very conservative ratings on the questionnaire.

[Anonymous]

Hi OP, We went with honest/gut answer for each and he had 1 consistently. We did not have other paperwork either, no certificates or awards etc..
He got in last year based on scores teacher's GBRS. I really think the Q we submitted had no bearing. We did it to show our support.

[Anonymous]

We answered questionnaire honestly, meaning we did not check "consistently" for most of the topics. For each topic, we did provide a 1-2 sentence specific example to demonstrate the characteristic/trait asked about. We did not include any additional work or references. Child is in 3rd grade AAP. I really think his selection for AAP was tied to his Cogat scores and his 1st and 2nd grade progress reports more than any parent questionnaire.

[Anonymous]

We put consistently but we meant it.. he really does show the traits often. So often = consistent.

[Anonymous]

We put consistently for all but one...and that one was honestly consistently, but I thought it looked ridiculous that I was giving dc a perfect score, so I knocked one down a notch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We put consistently but we meant it.. he really does show the traits often. So often = consistent.

To my understanding "often" does not eqeal "consistently." It's so subjective that they can't give those too much merit. Specific examples may help but I doubt they pay too much attention to the Questionnaire.

[Anonymous]

I gave specific examples. You might as well. Who knows if they even look at them. Both of my kids got into the center programs.