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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Im curious how much you  think your kids score would be affected if it was age adjusted assuming it wasnt already.[/quote]

That is impossible to say without the test data, but for my DC it would go up.  However, if the County is striving to make the process better (e.g. reworking the test to Fairfax only instead of national),  then normalizing the results by age would undoubtedly be more fair across the board.  This test is supposed to mimic an IQ test, and all IQ tests are age normalized.  What about the summer birthday kids who missed the pool cutoff by 2 or 3% points?  They are not in the pool, and others who are at 95%, and who are up to a year older may not have made the pool in the event scores were age normalized.  Now, I know many will say, just refer into the pool and take the WISC blah blah, but the point is fairness in the process.  Not everyone can afford the WISC.   The test was designed by professionals to make the process better and I am at a loss as to why it was not normalized for age.  The difference between a 7 year old and 8 year old's maturity and knowledge set can be significant (obviously more so than a 15 and 16 year old, for example).

This is a big flaw in my opinion.[/quote]

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