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[quote=Anonymous]1:07.  One test score may be one point in time, yes.  Any child can have a bad day.  But our kids are given tests on 4 different days.  One day for NNAT and three days for CogAT.  If a child takes WISC for appeal then that is five different points in time.  If a kid is consistenly scoring in the 85% percentile, it's time to realise that the scores are not an anomoly.

Most kids who score a 136 were not coached or did not take test prep.  It's highly doubtful that these children truly have 116.  In the same regard, how do we know a child with a 120 doesn't really have a 100 and wasn't coached?  For the poster who said he coached his kid, it didn't sound like he took a test prep course.  Even if he did, I'm leery of the claim that a test prep course could raise a child's score 20 points.  Where did that claim come from and how true is it?

The GBRS is much more subjective.  There are hundreds of different teachers and educaters coming up with this score.  Are they given training on how to do this score so there is consistency across evaluators?  In some schools the 2nd grade teacher does the score alone.  In other schools there is input from the 1st grade teacher.  In still others the AAP resource teachers does the scores.  It seems like a crap shoot.  Some schools/teachers are more open in their interpretation of what "gifted behaviours" mean.  Others are not.  Some 2nd grade teachers have been teaching for 3 years.  Others have been teaching for 30 years.  I'd say their interpretations are probably different.

I think it's good that FCPS gives weight to all of these factors since none of them is perfect.  Most school districts look alone at test scores.[/quote]

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