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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The objective of Cogat and IQ test here is very narrow: to determine which kids need more challenging class work.  So the question to ask is not so much as to [b]whether the unprepped kid is innately smarter than the prepped kid[/b], but whether they are indeed so different that they need different classroom instructions.  The rest is just purely for parental bragging right.[/quote]

We all get your aversion towards prepping.  But you have misconstrued the intended purpose of CoGAT altogether, because of how the school system uses it as an enrollment criteria into a program.

As per (pdf link posted above in this thread ) David F. Lohman author of CoGAT, it's original purpose within a school system was to identify underperforming kids (who also happen to be from low income families) but have ability to take on advanced academic work.  But now that the schools have started to use CoGAT as entry criteria to special program (much like SAT) to pick participants from all of the student population, he suggests that schools should level the field by providing preparation resources to all of the student population so that the low income families are not at a disadvantage.

From school system's perspective, CoGAT is not an IQ test, which medical practitioners administer when addressing an individual's psychological situation.

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