The DRA is a skill assessment, not an intelligence assessment.

Anonymous wrote:If you ask for your AAP file - to see the GBRS for example - and DRA isn't in it then I'd bet money that it isn't part of the decision making process.

Whether it should be is an open question that could only be answered by looking at hundreds of student outcomes over years or decades. My own feeling is that when you're talking about young children that developmental preferences come into play a lot and you can't read too much into them. But in my day they didn't start worrying about who was in GT until 5th or 6th grade.

The DRA is recorded as part of the AAP file.

If you ask for your AAP file - to see the GBRS for example - and DRA isn't in it then I'd bet money that it isn't part of the decision making process.

Whether it should be is an open question that could only be answered by looking at hundreds of student outcomes over years or decades. My own feeling is that when you're talking about young children that developmental preferences come into play a lot and you can't read too much into them. But in my day they didn't start worrying about who was in GT until 5th or 6th grade.

My daughter has a non-spectacular DRA Level 18 (at the end of First Grade) and was admitted to AAP Level 2 for 2nd grade. She's improving on reading but spends most of her time writing. The girl sits around and writes and writes and writes. She brought home 6 full journals from school and is constantly penning stories, and books, and poems and comics. She is very creative and has no problem putting it down on paper. Teachers say the reading will come and right now she's at grade level.

I know this is just anecdotal but I don't believe DRA scores are linked with AAP.