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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have it on good authority that the peer groups in the magnets this year are the strongest ever largely because of universal screening. In the past the only kids in the program were the ones whose parents recommended them and that bar was much lower.[/quote]
Then why not release the median test scores like they used to so that those tiger parents of students who didn't make it can see that their kids weren't that smart after all?

It would certainly bolster MCPS' position on the changes, pulling in missed qualified students, and hush up the naysayers.[/quote]

CogAt didn't provide numerical scores-- how can MCPS report the median? All we have is percentiles. Please explain how this would work. The media of percentile rank is statistically useless.[/quote]
For HGC, they used to show the median scores of admitted students split by for verbal, nonverbal and quantitative along with your child's score in each area.  DC took the test a few years ago.

Go back to some old threads. There is a thread where parents posted the median test scores in each of the HGCs.

And I don't think showing %iles is useless.  It would probably show that a student with a 99%ile was rejected because of peer cohort over a student with a lower %ile.[/quote]

You can't provide the median for percentiles.  They could provide the percentage of students that were admitted in each percentile or provide the range accepted.  As someone noted on another thread, just reporting 99% on CogAt is not useful because we don't know the range of scores that are included in 99%.  We need the normalized standard scores just like MAP provides that corresponds to a percentile.  99% could be a score of 130+, but what if someone only missed 1 question and others missed 10 and still scored in the 99%?  Why MCPS didn't insist that CogAt provide the normalized standard scores is the real issue.  [/quote]

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