Keep in mind that most teachers don't really understand what the numbers mean...... Last year, Snoopy's teacher told me that it was important that I realize that he got 99 percentile - not 100 percentile - meaning that there is still some material he can learn at that grade level.
Ooops..... I thought educators had to take some sort of course in statistics so that they could understand difficult concepts like percentile......
Mary
omigosh! That just made me gasp!! One of the things that is driving me NUTS is the members of the IEP team who don't understand what the evaluations and measurements mean.
Educators should have to take a stats review course and a measurements and eval review periodically.
It is also interesting to me how the positive (high ability) information on those tests seem to mean nothing to the educators, but the negative (LDs) information seem to be written by God himself in their eyes.
sigh.
