Anonymous wrote:USPS Informed Delivery shows an envelope today. Best wishes to all!

Anonymous wrote:I think the PP who posted that might not have read the studies carefully. Most of those papers were about identifying ESOL students and found that non-verbal scores may not be as people think and that it might capture the "wrong" (less likely to be successful) group. A few said that verbal and quantitative scores might be useful so districts shouldn't discount them.

Anonymous wrote:I think it's tactless to come on a board where parents are anxious and obsessing over test scores and comment how doing well on certain sections is more predictive of future success than others.

Anonymous wrote:why I only see one %? Where is age normed %? Isn’t it just one percentile being reported?

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's highly ridiculous that we are all participating in this conjecture, but I continue to, so whatever.

I found a study stating that students most likely to succeed in academic gifted programs will have consistently high scores in Q and V, and the N scores have less of an impact. Seems to be a pretty standard best practice for selection. So if your child has a high composite but with markedly higher Q and V scores, that seems to be the biggest CogAT indicator for selection according to experts.

No I will not post the study. If I found it you can too.

It sounds like you're trying to make yourself feel better that your child did not do well on the NV section. How is this helpful?

I think it's actually meaningful about how choices are made, and since everyone is speculating about this, it seems relevant.

My child did fine on the NV, as far as I am concerned. If 84 national and 86 age-normed is "not well" I shudder at the thought of what it's like to be your poor child. Your comment is really quite mean-spirited, PP.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's highly ridiculous that we are all participating in this conjecture, but I continue to, so whatever.

I found a study stating that students most likely to succeed in academic gifted programs will have consistently high scores in Q and V, and the N scores have less of an impact. Seems to be a pretty standard best practice for selection. So if your child has a high composite but with markedly higher Q and V scores, that seems to be the biggest CogAT indicator for selection according to experts.

No I will not post the study. If I found it you can too.

It sounds like you're trying to make yourself feel better that your child did not do well on the NV section. How is this helpful?

Anonymous wrote:I think it's highly ridiculous that we are all participating in this conjecture, but I continue to, so whatever.

I found a study stating that students most likely to succeed in academic gifted programs will have consistently high scores in Q and V, and the N scores have less of an impact. Seems to be a pretty standard best practice for selection. So if your child has a high composite but with markedly higher Q and V scores, that seems to be the biggest CogAT indicator for selection according to experts.

No I will not post the study. If I found it you can too.

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Anonymous wrote:Where is everyone seeing the results? We haven't gotten ours yet.

For the Cogat test? MCPS parent portal.

Anonymous wrote:Where is everyone seeing the results? We haven't gotten ours yet.