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[quote=Anonymous][quote]18:00 - I'm the poster you refer to - thanks for sharing that document - very interesting. Based on my own DCs scores, I thought eligible scores would have generally been high across the categories. Obviously there are wide ranges of test results even among children who qualify for the pool. [/quote]

Well my guess is that a majority of students placed above the 97th percentile or above on at last least one of the four tests. You need to score that on one of the tests to get in the initial screening pool after all.  I just have my doubts about the accuracy of the ability tests in general.  At my child’s school over 30% of the 2nd graders (30 students) made it into the pre-screening pool including my son.  But I believe that a 50 question COGAT or NNAT is never going to be as strong an indicator ability as say the WISC, GRE or SAT.  We are talking about a 50 question test given to 2nd graders.  This is why a cringe a bit when the 97% number is being tossed around as some sort of holy grail of ability. I think that the GBRS, DRA, parent comments and work samples are all also valid indicators for determining eligibility.  Probably the metric that I would trust the most if I were on the review committee would be the GBRS.

I believe that it would fairly easy to develop a process for accurately identifying the top 2-3% of 2nd graders in Fairfax county (unless for example a student has gone “underground” or has issues) since you are at the very edge of the bell curve. On the other hand I do not believe that any process is ever going to be that accurate for identifying the top 12% of 2nd graders.

Another thing to note is that the pool of eligible students is getting bigger each year.   At this rate it may not be too long until the top 20 percent of students are being admitted into the program. I guess that since my son made the cut into the GT program that, I should be tempted to wish that the pool not get diluted down further by admiting more students but, at this rate, I just hope that the program does not one day get eliminated completely to save money.
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