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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're disappointed that your child is in the 99th percentile?[/quote]

I’m disappointed in the 135 part.

My other kid was in the 130s and he didn’t get in to AAP.[/quote]

Because the teacher form (GBRS in the past/HOPE now) can tank or make a kid.

Kids in the 100s can get in with a good form, kids in the 130s won't with a bad one. This has been public info for years.

Prepping doesn't make a difference in the case of a kid in the 130s. Having a good form does.[/quote]

If this is true, why bother giving students NNAT and Cogat? Why doesn't FCPS just assign students in AAP by teacher's referral[/quote]

You should really look at the 2020 external report on the FCPS AAP report.  
[url]https://www.fcps.edu/academics/academic-overview/advanced-academic-programs-aap/review-fairfax-county-public-schools[/url]

It makes a few things clear:

1) GBRS (which is filled out by the teacher) is more consequential as to whether or not someone will be AAP Level 4 eligible than either the COGAT or NNAT.  COGAT Quantitative seems to be a hair more consequential than the COGAT Verbal for purposes of AAP Level 4 eligibility.  In other words, the teacher's view of the student has the strongest weight of any factor.

2) The 2020 report actually recommended eliminating the NNAT, which is further evidence for the devaluation of the NNAT.

3) Race/Ethnicity is also consequential.  That is, given the same COGAT/NNAT, students of color are more likely to be AAP Level 4 eligible.  This is very pronounced for Black students.  That being said, the number of Black students who are referred in the first place is low and so Black students are underrepresented in AAP, relative to their proportion of the total population of students.

So, to answer your question, AAP is basically all about the teacher's referral.  The cynic in me says that they've added all these other factors   in order to evade any accountability.  [b]That is, the teachers don't want angry parents confronting them about their special snowflake.  If you want to see this in action, try telling a teacher that he/she is the decisive factor in whether or not your child gets into AAP.  The teacher will respond by saying that he/she doesn't decide and that the "committee" decides.[/b][/quote]

Not PP. This year our 2nd grade teacher made "I don't have any impact on whether your child gets into AAP; the committee decides." the central feature of her Back-to-School Night presentation. Having read the 2020 report, I mentally called B. S. on her; knowing I would refer my kid for AAP I obviously didn't say it out loud.[/quote]

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