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It was a external program evaluation of the AAP program completed in 2015 (I think--around then if not exactly) by GMU researchers as part of a grant.  I don't know if it's publicly available.  Cogat was used and a smaller sub-set of WISC also if appealed/applied from outside FCPS system.  NNat  was highly variable and more complicated so they didn't use simple means.  I saw it in the context of a training on psychoeducational assessments.[/quote]

You must have misunderstood the data.  Slightly less than 10% of FCPS kids are in-pool on CogAT, and not all of those kids are admitted to AAP.  About 21% of the FCPS kids are found eligible for AAP Level IV.  This means that over half of the kids in AAP had below-pool CogAT scores, and thus the median CogAT composite would have to be below 132.[/quote]

Well, I think I said mean, not median and there was a large bump in the data around 128-131 on the parent referrals--and another small bump at ceiling in the overall data on COGAT so I don't think I'm incorrect on the mean. I know it was above 130 and I do know how to read data.  And if WISC was used in appeals it supplanted COGAT as it was more robust (we were working with WISC and its correlation to other measures so that's where I had the most info).  Now, since I'm not looking at the paper, I don't remember the precise details, and there could have been data limitations but the idea that there's tons of kids with scores in the teens/low 20s was not what I saw at all.  [/quote]

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