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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
Cold Spring CES used to send 20+ students to TPMS which was more than any school before the magnet admission changes. Cold Spring has the highest scores in the county (including the non CES kids). Several of the feeder elementary schools also score extraordinarily high. The school and area is itself an outlier of high performers. The principal is great and the teachers are used to working with actual gifted and highly motivated students. It is a fantastic school for kids who really get into their work and have a perfectionist streak.

It would not be the greatest experience for a kid who is very smart but would rather play video games or ball outside in the afternoons. The downside of the new admission process is that the teacher recommendations used to catch which 99.9999% kid would be happy doing the work and which 99.99999% kid would not be happy doing the work.[/quote]

[quote]It is strange that just as MCPS had realized the COGAT folks say it doesn't distinguish in any meaningful way at the highest percentages - it's just not designed to do that in a statistically sound manner - MCPS now is taking the 99th percentile and giving meaning to those tenths and hundreths of percentile points by ranking MCPS test takers in a way that spreads out the 99th percentile over many percentiles. I guess they made a new COGAT? Or not.[/quote]

The 99.99999 is about the MAP scores. Its pretty easy to score at 99% in MAP because the % is nation wide. One kid might be 99% at 205 and another kid might be 99% at 260. The kid with 260 clearly is more advanced. [/quote]

Perhaps, it is but one thing we know for certain is MCPS MAP scores are not that different than the national scores because they actually publish this.

People on DCUM like to believe that MCPS kids are lighteyars ahead but they really aen't.[/quote]

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