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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our school AART teacher said the lowest score she saw in the accepted students last year is 142. That seems unrealistic high for me.[/quote]

She probably mis-spoke and meant to say 132. That number would make sense for a higher-SES school.[/quote]

I doubt she mis-spoke, there are schools where a 142 would be the norm.[/quote]

Which is why the test scores have become meaningless and irrelevant.  Parents broke them.[/quote]

I am not so sure parents broke them.  My kid goes to a very high SES school (i.e. 1% of kids are free an reduced meals), and he scored right around there.  All we did was some practice problems from a $5 workbook. We did not even finish the workbook because it was clear he understood.  I really don’t know any of his friends who were going to test prep places and we do lots of car pools for activities, so I am looped into a lot of family schedules. I would not doubt many of his friends also scored that high.  They are smart kids. There are just a lot of really smart and accomplished people around here. Intelligence is due both to heredity and environment, the latter of which means so much more than an hour of test prep. Kids in this school have a lot going for them without a lot of prep.

I am glad America will have these future leaders.  Why is that a bad thing? We should celebrate their emerging capacity.[/quote]

To sum: The lies we tell ourselves to justify prepping for aptitude tests.[/quote]

Eh, I can fully buy that there are kids who score high with the workbooks and no prep classes. Kids whose parents have been reading to them and finding ways for them to practice math are in a better place for the CoGAT, regardless of prep. We know that higher SES families are more likely to have been reading to kids and practicing math. I know that there are parents who send their kids to prep classes but not every high score is a prep class. The work books are effective and less expensive.

I don’t buy the CoGAT as an IQ test because it is too easily influenced. [/quote]

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