Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Except my kids can quote from memory all the iReady questions because they are the same year to year. Pretty sure if people decide iReady is *the* factor in AAP you'll have parents prepping for that too, and it's not really that hard.

Which is why the teacher recommendation (GBRS/HOPE) has always carried the most weight in the process. Teachers can often figure out if a kid needs extra academics.