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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do people really hire coaches to help their kids do well on the NNAT and CogAt??? That's crazy. I have heard about parents bringing their kids to education centers, hiring tutors, and buying workbooks. But, this is the first time I have read about parents hiring coaches. Now I feel guilty. I did not even tell my kid he was taking a test. I didn't prepare him at all. I guess I am old school. I thought these tests were supposed to assess a child's ability without preparing/training the child first[b]. It is no surprise that local scores are so different from national scores.[/b][/quote]

That is why they need to use a higher standard for the AA program here. A parent on another thread said 97 percentile would be good enough in other parts of the country, but not here and wanted to know why. This is the reason: kids are "coached" so they end up getting higher scores than they would have without that help. The scores then can make it look as though they need a program that they actually don't need, so the base line score needs to be raised. They also take into account teacher observations of how kids behave in class, where the "coaching" has less effect.
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They've needed to raise the base line score for years now.  That was especially noticeable when so many of the current 5th grade class was admitted to AAP.[/quote]

They need a way to identify coaching...maybe they can put an easter egg in the test..[/quote]

I doubt there is a question they could ask that would identify test prepped kids. And unless there are a bunch of kids who get into the program and then fail at it (because presumably they weren't a good fit) there isn't much reason for the school system to be concerned about it. It would be interesting to see a study about how much test prep for these tests raises scores on average. [/quote]

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