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Anonymous wrote:As a school psychologist I have to let you know that you will invalidate the test if you expose your child to the questions before it’s administered.

What’s wrong with you people?

How can they be exposed to questions?? THere is nothing out there with WISC questions!

Of course there is. Prepping is possible, but a bad idea because it's invalidating. It's good that FCPS no longer puts any weight on it - except as part of the 504/IEP process.

That’s ridiculous! The WISC is much more correlated with giftedness than the CogAT.

FCPS knows that parents with some extra money are more likely to prep for the CogAT and the WiSC. They don’t trust the test results because parents are prepping their kids. The scores are invalidated by prep and the schools know this. So they don’t use the scores any more.

Even with prepping, the WISC is more accurate than the CogAT which is much more accurate than teacher ratings

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a school psychologist I have to let you know that you will invalidate the test if you expose your child to the questions before it’s administered.

What’s wrong with you people?

How can they be exposed to questions?? THere is nothing out there with WISC questions!

Of course there is. Prepping is possible, but a bad idea because it's invalidating. It's good that FCPS no longer puts any weight on it - except as part of the 504/IEP process.

That’s ridiculous! The WISC is much more correlated with giftedness than the CogAT.

Fwiw, while the unprepared WISC correlates with giftedness, the unprepped Cogat correlates better with academic success.

Until y'all outsmarted yourselves and ruined the test, the Cogat was a really good test and predictor. Oh well.

Would you tell your child not to prepare for (or at least familiarize themselves with) the SAT/ACT/LSAT or whatever other standardized test they were taking because you want the college or institution to "truly evaluate" your child so their results are valid?

Anonymous wrote:We did absolutely nothing - including not even telling my child what the appointments were for. We said it was just puzzle time for fun. At the end, the psychologist said she could tell he wasn’t prepped at all. He scored extremely high.

If you sent your kid to ‘fun puzzle time’ that means that you’ve made him solve many such fun puzzles.

There is a reason why the western world’s iq scores are plateauing, because all the intellectual activities we do with our kids are essentially prepping.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a school psychologist I have to let you know that you will invalidate the test if you expose your child to the questions before it’s administered.

What’s wrong with you people?

How can they be exposed to questions?? THere is nothing out there with WISC questions!

Of course there is. Prepping is possible, but a bad idea because it's invalidating. It's good that FCPS no longer puts any weight on it - except as part of the 504/IEP process.

That’s ridiculous! The WISC is much more correlated with giftedness than the CogAT.

FCPS knows that parents with some extra money are more likely to prep for the CogAT and the WiSC. They don’t trust the test results because parents are prepping their kids. The scores are invalidated by prep and the schools know this. So they don’t use the scores any more.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a school psychologist I have to let you know that you will invalidate the test if you expose your child to the questions before it’s administered.

What’s wrong with you people?

How can they be exposed to questions?? THere is nothing out there with WISC questions!

Of course there is. Prepping is possible, but a bad idea because it's invalidating. It's good that FCPS no longer puts any weight on it - except as part of the 504/IEP process.

That’s ridiculous! The WISC is much more correlated with giftedness than the CogAT.

I agree! However I thought there was definitely some sense that AAP isn’t truly a program limited to “gifted” children in the sense of the description relating to neurodiversity and all the other factors, ie asynchronous development etc, that can go along with it. Given the size of the program my understanding was it also encompasses many bright, well-performing children that may not meet the traditional criteria associated with the gifted label.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a school psychologist I have to let you know that you will invalidate the test if you expose your child to the questions before it’s administered.

What’s wrong with you people?

How can they be exposed to questions?? THere is nothing out there with WISC questions!

Of course there is. Prepping is possible, but a bad idea because it's invalidating. It's good that FCPS no longer puts any weight on it - except as part of the 504/IEP process.

That’s ridiculous! The WISC is much more correlated with giftedness than the CogAT.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a school psychologist I have to let you know that you will invalidate the test if you expose your child to the questions before it’s administered.

What’s wrong with you people?

How can they be exposed to questions?? THere is nothing out there with WISC questions!

Well, I have a book of questions so it definitely exists. Look, the test is not an accurate measure of intelligence. If schools require something so ridiculous to assess a child at the age of 7 or 8, then they deserve what they get.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a school psychologist I have to let you know that you will invalidate the test if you expose your child to the questions before it’s administered.

What’s wrong with you people?

How can they be exposed to questions?? THere is nothing out there with WISC questions!

Of course there is. Prepping is possible, but a bad idea because it's invalidating. It's good that FCPS no longer puts any weight on it - except as part of the 504/IEP process.

Yeah now it's just what some moron teacher with nothing more than an undergrad degree and a 120 IQ thinks.

Right. Parents get what they deserve. And so do kids.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a school psychologist I have to let you know that you will invalidate the test if you expose your child to the questions before it’s administered.

What’s wrong with you people?

How can they be exposed to questions?? THere is nothing out there with WISC questions!

Of course there is. Prepping is possible, but a bad idea because it's invalidating. It's good that FCPS no longer puts any weight on it - except as part of the 504/IEP process.

Yeah now it's just what some moron teacher with nothing more than an undergrad degree and a 120 IQ thinks.