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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Apparently the success rate on appeals is very high. Can anyone that as many as 50% of the kids in the GT centers got in on appeal?[/quote]

Not even close.  In 2004-2005,  2335 children were accepted into the GT Center.  152 of those were accepted after appealing an initial denial of those services.  More recent data are not available.

http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/Fairfax/Board.nsf/39c6389c088be51585256e56000c1bf2/2b1b2b585a5d305e852570fb004f3f9f/$FILE/Gifted%20and%20Talented%20Center%20Program.pdf

If you are asking if appeals are frequently successful, then the answer would be yes.  59% of those who appealed in 2004-05 were eventually declared eligible. [b]Most of those submitted additional test scores.[/b][/quote]

so the CogAt and NNAT aren't predictive enough?  For some apprently it's a good idea to shop around for a test that gives you the result you want. :roll:

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They are clearly inferior to the WISC or Stanford-Binet, which is the gold standard and much more expensive to administer.  FCPS uses the CoGat because it's a group test which is cheaper to administer and somewhat correlated with the WISC, and the NNAT because it's also a cheap group test and the creator of that test used to work at GMU and claims that it's better at identifying 'gifted' disadvantaged kids.  There's substantial evidence, however, that the NNAT is very flawed because standard deviation on that test is very wrong for 2nd graders.

It would be ideal if FCPS would just administer the WISC to every kid, but that's clearly untenable because it's too time-consuming and too expensive.  Instead, they use the CoGat/NNAT to screen, but even they acknowledge it has major faults, so they provide another avenue for acceptance for those kids that it misses.[/quote]

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