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Anonymous wrote:Anecdotally, they seemed to put a heavy weight on I-ready recently. I know at least a few kids who had really high cogat scores and lower I-ready scores that did not get in.

You can prep any above average child to score very high on the CogAT and the NNAT. The questions fall into very narrow and predictable categories so that with enough time and practice, a smart child can reproduce the patterns. I-Ready is totally different, and frankly a better idicator of a child's ability to accelerate in school. It's good the schools have wised up to the CogAT/NNAT prep game.

Agree. AAP isn't really a gifted program. It's advanced academics, and I-Ready is a decent measure of who could benefit from acceleration. COGAT and NNAT...not so much.

When is VALLS being given?

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Anonymous wrote:VALLS is only given to struggling readers, so most students will only be doing IReady.

VALLS seems to be given to everybody.

Anyone know if VALLS is going to be used for AAP applications?

They used to use DRA on the applications when they administered that, so I imagine if they have a reading level data point it will be used.

Anonymous wrote:VALLS is only given to struggling readers, so most students will only be doing IReady.

VALLS seems to be given to everybody.

Anyone know if VALLS is going to be used for AAP applications?

Anonymous wrote:Anecdotally, they seemed to put a heavy weight on I-ready recently. I know at least a few kids who had really high cogat scores and lower I-ready scores that did not get in.

You can prep any above average child to score very high on the CogAT and the NNAT. The questions fall into very narrow and predictable categories so that with enough time and practice, a smart child can reproduce the patterns. I-Ready is totally different, and frankly a better idicator of a child's ability to accelerate in school. It's good the schools have wised up to the CogAT/NNAT prep game.

Anecdotally, they seemed to put a heavy weight on I-ready recently. I know at least a few kids who had really high cogat scores and lower I-ready scores that did not get in.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. I-Ready for Math and VALLS for English/Reading.

Where did you hear this from?

NP. It looks like they're using VALLSS in K-2 and starting Iready reading in 3rd this year.

https://www.fcps.edu/academic-screening-growth-and-diagnostic-tests

VALLS is only given to struggling readers, so most students will only be doing IReady.

This is a critical data point fwiw

Anonymous wrote:Yes. I-Ready for Math and VALLS for English/Reading.

Where did you hear this from?

Yes. I-Ready for Math and VALLS for English/Reading.

Are they using VALLSS instead of iready verbal this year?

Iready only from second grade fall test. Make sure your child get above 90 percentile, it would make appeal so much easier in case you have to do it.

Since last year they are also looking at second grade Fall IReady scores.

Or is it strictly cogat nnat scores only? Do they have access to ready?