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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The test scores are really not a great indicator of how well your child would do in aap. They are age normed. So while your child may do better than a child the same age (born the same month), they may still be far behind the kids in their grade.  They also can be easily prepped.

I think teachers know who can keep up with the advanced pace in level iv and who cannot. Parents don’t see the day to day in the classroom. The kids who understand the material immediately, do their work, and then help other kids figure it out are the ones ready for the advanced material. The kids who need one on one help from the teacher would really slow a level iv class down. It is fluid though, so while a child is not ready in 3rd, they may be ready in 4th.

But test scores can’t show that. So gbrs are really important. Unless you would like level iv to have to slow down for the kids who still need a lot of handholding. [/quote]

I'm a secondary school teacher. Very few kids who have been passing advanced on the SOLs since elementary school struggle in AAP at the middle school level. Same thing with kids who score high on CogAt and NNAT. [b]Has anyone ever studied the validity of the GBRS[/b]?[/quote]
One of the recommendations in the AAP equity report was to get rid of the GBRS because it isn't a psychometrically valid instrument.  There are other giftedness profile tools out there that are considered valid, but all of them are much more comprehensive and much more focused on academic ability rather than guessing a kid's creativity or motivation levels.

In my experience, the kids who needed the handholding and the slowing down of the curriculum were the ones who had the high GBRS and lower test scores.  [/quote]

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