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[quote=Anonymous][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.[b] those with resources[/b].  So you don't have a school of Highly Gifted.  You have a school of the Highly Fortunate.[/quote]

Oh, please.  A Cogat book runs around 20 bucks on Amazon -- that's exactly the 'prep' we did with my child, went through the book once, and we are by no means 'highly fortunate'. Yes, my child will be "disadvantaged" compared to some of her classmates who signed up for Saturday test prep, but at least I've done all I could to make sure my child does his best on the test.

And, FWIW, the test isn't so easy to prep for, it isn't SAT, however, it doesn't hurt to be familiar with the format.[/quote]

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