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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ok I'll do the work for you one last time.

The report says in 2005-06, there were total of 256 appeals.

So... simple math...  assuming all of the 256 took WISC(although some appeal without it). 
256 * $430 = $110,080

So... do you think that's amount of money play any role in the process??

It's worth about two teachers salary for a year for the county.

And... 110,080 will be shard by GMU and number of psychologists in Fairfax county.
It's very very small portion of the professionals income. 
Do you think the psychologists will do anything for the parents risking their profession and integrity.

I strongly don't believe so.  
I know fact and logic won't do any good for you... you are free to believe what you choose to. [/quote]

To go even slower:  256 appealed, the report shows that 60% or about 140, submitted additional testing.
We do not know how many kids took the WISC and did not apply when there parents saw the results.  You do not appeal with scores of 115....

However, I will suspect that the GT process results in about 1000 kids taking the WISC....

That is a self selecting group, not random.  Factors leading to taking the WISC are upper 75% on the tests AND low GBRS.

so of the 1000, 80% probably scored below 125 (based on distributions).  Those will not appeal.  of the remaining children will be 125 and above, with 1/2 being between 125 and 132 (based on distributions).

As it turns out, 128 seemed to be the magic number on WISC.  So of the 1000 kids that took the wisc, presumably 200 submitted the scores through appeal, 150 had scores that were acceptable.

Without WISC scores, the committee tries to identify the smart kids using criteria with know / documented issues.  If the CogAT or NNAT were sufficient, there would be no GBRS.  If the county could afford to give every child a WISC, there would be no GBRS. CogAT+NNAT+GBRS give about a 90% probability of identifying smart kids.  However, it probably misidentifies about 20-30% of the kids as smart when they are not.  That is the regular process.

With WISC, the probability of detection is higher, probably 95%.  The false alarm rate drops to about 10%.  So, if anything the appeals kids, on average, are smarter.[/quote]

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