Our goal is to not over test students thus having more students not qualify than qualify, but to target the students that will achieve the cognitive scores to enter our programs.
What's funny about that reasoning is my oldest DS would have qualified, but it would have been a horrible fit in our programs. He would have been overwhelmed by it. He is dyslexic and the pace would have killed him. I just wish they would look at whole pictures not the corner.
At least they seem to be looking at something for the math area.
I always feel grateful that our school will use Cogat, IBST, State testing plus any other special testing done for individual kids. Explore, SCAT, IQ, etc.
They also do reading and math level screening through the year by teachers.
The seem to have a reasonable handle on identifying the needs at this point and considering the child's personality. Not to say they haven't sometime struggled with it, I had a few battles but they are improving by the year.
