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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not OP and don't post here very often, but my DD has a 34 DRA. In K and 1st got all 4's all year. Her GBRS was 16 in K and 14 in 1st. In 2nd she gets mostly 4s. Is getting level II for math and reading in 2nd and also did in 1st. She has a 130 WISC which we submitted. She was only given an 11 GBRS. So, I can only assume her teacher and the committee don't like her very much. [/quote]

The GBRS are so much more than academics and test scores. It discusses creative problem-solving techniques, linking different content areas, demonstrating an extension of knowledge. Even when a parent feels as though their student has those skills, maybe the teacher has only seen "some" evidence of it.  And GBRS of 11 is not a bad score. How were the comments that went with it?[/quote]

Yes!  I don't see how the standardized tests cover some of that creativity.  My DC has gotten 4's in that area on both of the GBRS I've seen.  That doesn't mean that DC got all 4's.  But the comments that went with the GBRS said so much about how she had stood out in that area, and it was consistent year-to-year.  It's hard for me to imagine a Cogat or a WISC capturing that.[/quote]

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