First a disclaimer that DS ended up in the highest scores category possible for our gifted program admission and so we're happy with the results in the sense that he will get access to the programs he needs, etc. This is more of a mix of curiosity and also double checking there's not something more here, as one of the results was wayyyyy off!
DS8 just received the following CogAT scores:
Verbal - 62 items/62 attempted/48 correct - SAS 118/APR 87
Quantitative - 52 items/51 attempted/51 correct - SAS 151/APR 99
Nonverbal - 56 items/53 attempted/46 correct - SAS 134/APR 98
Composite (VQN) - SAS 142/APR 99
I have two concerns looking at this:
1) My gifted kid can't bubble! yikes! According to him he answered every question on all 3 tests. Why does it say 4 questions between the two Quant and Nonverb weren't scored? We did nothing to prep him for these tests but for the Iowa testing next week we may practice bubbling. Does anyone else know why it would say he didn't attempt all the questions? He told me after the test he missed 1 in Quant so the score matches, but he said he answered all of them.
2) That verbal score is shocking to me. He's a math kid for sure -- that's his interest, but he also loves to read and has always read years above grade level. In private testing when he was 5 (I know, very young) his verbal scores lined up with this math scores pretty consistently. The only low he's had is processing speed which is in the low 30s if I remember. Everything else is consistently in that 97-99% range. This is a kid that hasn't tested 87th percentile in anything other than PS in his life. What's up with that?
If it's that he just doesn't understand the question format/style they were asking on this test I guess it doesn't REALLY matter... I'm wondering if I should even try to understand or if it's not really worth it?
He's also in a Language Immersion program so he spends all day in Spanish, but he reads and writes in English a lot at home (he inhales books, but mostly fantasy books, his reading diet isn't very diverse).
The write up said the following "Because verbal reasoning skills are so important to success in school, encourage XXXX to improve these skills. XXXX would benefit from a language curriculum with more opportunities for reading, writing, listening, and speaking."
Again, I'm kind of reading this in shock
because this is the kid that is the top 1-2 in his class in reading and writing every year. I think it's just that his score was so off from his other score but this makes it sound like I need to do some sort of intervention and if so I'm not even sure what that might be.
DS8's private testing was as a very young 5 year old so I suppose those scores could be wrong (he's moderately gifted) but I think those scores match his academic performance (3 years advanced in math and years ahead reading, etc in his second language in the immersion program.)
Thoughts from testing Gurus?
