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[quote=Anonymous]Somehow this stat thread turned into test prep discussion, but I'll bite. The reason some people are upset about NNAT/COGAT prep but not SAT, is because the former are supposed to measure child "natural ability to think" while the latter measures skills, mastered abilities to read and knowledge of obscure vocabulary.

However prep from videly available materials (e.g. Books) is not cheating. Cheating is writing to Pearson's that you homeschool your kid, getting the actual test and using that to prep (and yes there was a thread here discussing ethics around it). I don't think there is ANY evidence that going through one book with your child in the evening has impact to scores... there might be. No one has measured it. Test prep classes? I'm sad for the kids, but no, not cheating.

there is a conversation right here in this thread that there is no limit on spaces in AAP. So why do you care if some kid got 133 instead of 129 because their mom showed them a similar problem in a book? We don't even know if it made a difference in decision.

We all are trying to get education for our kids that we think is the best for them. If some parents believe that going through a book or signing up their kids for hours of obscure classes is a way to go, let it be.

Signed: a non-Asian mom who would never think of sending kids to prep classes.[/quote]

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