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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How the h@ll is a test that uses shapes and figures, like the NNAT, biased??

Bunch of whiners claiming victim status. All you have to do is cry raaaaaacist and you get your way[/quote]

I can't speak to the NNAT, but on the CogAT this year, one of the questions was a picture of a score board, a basketball hoop, and "a box with a line missing from the top and a line sticking down from the bottom".  In other words, a football goal, but my daughter had been clueless about what the picture was supposed to be (probably because she has never watched a football game).   A soccer goal seems like it would have been a more universal picture.  I'm sure you are going to come up with some snarky remark about how I'm bitter she missed a question, but the point I'm trying to make is that there are small things that can skew a test result that have nothing to do with a child's intelligence.  I'm not concerned about my daughter, but I am concerned about her classmates whose parents aren't able to provide for them in the same ways that I am for her, and how we as a society can support those families and children so that everyone is able to have a chance at the best outcomes possible.  Programs like this seem like an excellent effort to test out a theory and see if it is something that can make a small difference toward that.[/quote]

How in the world do you know what the questions were?[/quote]

I know about that particular question because my daughter came home from school and talked about it, because it stumped her.[/quote]

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