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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow!  It just seems so subjective.  Look at the other thread.  There are kids with scores WAY below 139 that got in on the first round on a parent referral because the teacher and AART wrote a good GBRS.  So a kid with a perfect score on one of the tests and a 132 on the WISC wouldn't make it?  Bizarre to me.  That kid is objectively in the top 2% where as the referral kid is in the top because of the "subjective" opinion of the teacher and the AART.  It seems like a process in which the schools can really play favorites.[/quote]
For kids with scores lower than the cutoff, if the schools inflate their GBRS, they can get in. I think the county should just use the national NNAT/COGAT scores, eliminate the parent referal and school inflated GBRS in the process, that seems to be fair.

BTW- my kid got in with GBRS-6, NNAT(146) and COGAT(140); even with bad school reports (some "N"s, very few "O"s)- the GT selection
panel did not conisder school's ratings in our case at all.[/quote]

The NNAT and COGAT are group administered measures that assess a very small area of abilities.  The WISC is a internationally recognized and widely normed and validated measure.  If the county used just the NNAT, COGAT and GBRS they would miss out on children who have the ability to thrive within the AAP Centers.  Approx. 67% of the pool gets in.  56% of parent referrals get in (this shows you that the three measures alone are not adequate to determine giftedness.[/quote]

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