My son qualified in Phase I of our districts gifted testing due to his 97 in the Quantitative Age Percentile but didn't make it in Phase II. Since he has taken these tests he has been diagnosed as dyslexic which helps me understand some of the cogat scores. What I don't understand is the vase difference of the scores between the two tests.
On the cogat his scores were:
Verbal Age Percentile - 43
Quantitative Age Percentile - 97
Nonverbal Age Percentile - 77
Composite Age Percentile - 77
However on the ITBS he scored:
Reading Percentile - 1 (yes, that is a 1)
Math Percentile - 9 (yes, that is a 9)
Raw score reading: 3/27
Raw score math: 10/35
I've never claimed my child was the smartest in his class but the ITBS is indicating that he needs remedial math. This doesn't fit what I see him doing because he just started 2nd grade and can do all the math with ease. (We have him working on a 3rd grade math class at home and does this work with no problem.)
I've talked to the district person for the gifted program and I'm getting blown off. I don't want to keep pushing the issue if I am just misunderstanding something but I just can't make these 2 extreme differences in the test results make sense.
Any insight would be appreciated!
