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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Precisely, I think most parents might either deny or downplay the amount of prep.  Also the definition of prep varies from "reading to my child daily, taking them to museums, generally offering opportunities for exposure to intellectually stimulating activities" to "[b]reviewed a few test taking strategies, format, etc" to "extensive 6 week test prep course over the summer" etc[/b].  Plus, you can't discount every kid that was prepped, because that kid might have scored judt as well without, you'll never know, because you can't have 2 parallel situations happening at once.  Mostly, I think parents would be dishonest, because they want to portray their child as naturally gifted.  [/quote]

These two would be my definitions of prepping for the purposes of the study. And I would not be studying whether test prep caused kids to get a better score on the test, but more narrowly, I would be comparing test scores and GBRS of prepped kids and non-prepped kids. I would be comparing the test scores to the GBRS scores, not whether the scores of prepped kids were different than those of non-prepped kids. The point would be to see if there was a close relationship between the test and GBRS scores and whether the relationship was closer in the prepped or non-prepped population.

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