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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, for whatever reason they used the age normed, not the grade normed, which disadvantaged somewhat the kids with fall birthdays (and the red-shirted kids), and advantaged the younger kids in the grade.  Since it's an achievement test and not an IQ test, I think it was wildly inappropriate to use the age norms and not the grade norms, as you would not normally think a 5th grader should be compared to a 6th grader in achievement (unless you were prepping that kid outside of school).  
I don't care that much, as I didn't want my kid to go to one of those schools, but I just think it's an example of MCPS being sort of irrational about much of this.[/quote]

You seem to have a very profound opinion for someone that doesn't care that much.  And especially for someone who doesn't even want their kid to go to [i]one of those schools[/i].[/quote]

I find this red-shirted comment strange too. It's not a linear correlation anyway. If you look into their documentation you'll see sometimes you need to score higher in some of the younger age categories than older ones! So maybe you needed a 53 to score 99th percentile on verbal for a July 2009 birthday versus 49 for October 2008 birthdays.

Also, this isn't an achievement test like PARCC or MAP. This is a learned ability test so while they say it's not an IQ test it's closer to one than a straight up achievement test. It's not meant to show depth and breadth of knowledge in math and reading. It's meant to highlight reasoning abilities.
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