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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you expose a child to the type of questions that are on the cogat before taking it the score is invalidated. This is how the test was designed. It’s not a great instrument. If you prep you are not getting a true picture of your child’s ability. [/quote]

Um, so your argument is that you shouldn't prep so that a test that is not a great instrument gets an true picture of what this not great instrument thinks your child's ability is?  No thanks.[/quote]

The test is only great when kids are going into it cold. Otherwise it is not a great instrument. It is a test of learned ability. It’s a very easy test to prep for. This is just how the test was designed. [/quote]

Then perhaps the whole system of how people are identifying highly gifted in MCPS is flawed. What a shock.  [/quote]

+1  If it's so easy to prep for, then you're biasing the designation of gifted towards those whose parents prep them, i.e. those with resources.  So you don't have a school of Highly Gifted.  You have a school of the Highly Fortunate.[/quote]

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