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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am curious about the nnat scores coming in this year. I was really surprised that ds only got a score of 105. This kind of thing is what he does best! I'm trying not to stress knowing this is only one test but now I am curious. Seems like a raw score of 36/48 would be higher than 60%. Did more students do very well this year or is this average for fcps? I am new to this so pardon my cluelessness. ?[/quote]

45/48 was 99th percentile. [/quote]

The test is age-normed, so a given score would be a different percentile depending on your kid's age. [/quote]

This, many parents are confused by the raw score and the resulting percentile but a couple things to take into account:
1) age-normed: You could have two children in the same grade with the same raw score but different percentiles due to their age at the time of the test (I know a child in first grade who turned 8-he was a May birthday and parents opted to have him do K 2xs, and a child in 1st grade who turned 6-late September birthday, parents opted to enter before she turned 5). The age norm is a standard part of testing.

2) This is a brief snap shot of your child, maybe he/she had a bad testing day. Maybe this test was confusing to him/her, maybe he/she hit the wrong buttons, who knows? There are a ton of possible confounding variables.

I have done testing in the past and have been surprised by parents reactions. I think very few people actually realize what scores mean (including WISC and resulting "IQ" numbers), just because your child scores in a normal range doesn't mean he/she can't/won't be successful and I can definitely tell you that just because he/she scores in a "profound" range, does not mean he/she will be successful. It is simply on data point.

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I posted the 45/48 99th percentile data point. When was the test given to 1st graders? Late fall? My child would have been ~6yr3mo.

Sorry, I really don't know much about AAP because I don't really care. I'm not going to help "guide" my son one way or the other. [b]If he's in the pool -- great; if not -- great. [/b]If one is in the the right FCPS HS pyramid, I'd say how the child applies him/herself matters much much more than the the track s/he is on.

I have a 4th grader in gen ed and she's doing just fine. In 14 years, when she's applying for her first job, none of this crap will matter.

Why am I here, then? You might ask. When I got my son's NNAT2 score, I thought I should educate myself on AAP just in case he ends up in the pool. That led me here; and I was quickly reminded why I should stay away. See ya! [/quote]

Useless, holier-than-thou nonsense.  [/quote]

This.  Plus the post is completely not believable.  Why?  Well, you're talking about someone who already knows about AAP (she has a 4th grader) AND knows that she has at almost a year before the AAP issue is forefront (application is due) yet she is on here trying to just educate herself just in case he ends up in the pool, which pool number will be announced probably 8 months from now.  What she said in bold is absolutely not true.  She definitely cares.[/quote]

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