As a gifted teacher, I really like NWEA - of all the school assessments we take, it's the only one that adjusts itself to the child. I teach in a self-contained gifted program unique to our district, and scores like the one you mentioned are not all that uncommon among my kids. We just took the test, and I had a 4th grader who scored a 272! Of course, he is profoundly gifted and will be taking 8th grade pre-algebra next year as a 5th grader. I also had a 3rd grader who just scored 259, and another who scored 246. These scores are pretty consistent with what I see in class, although they may be slightly inflated because - as you all know - gifted kids are great at eliminating wrong answers, and many of my kids know to "work backwards" using the multiple choice answers. They definitely do better than they would if the test were fill-in-the-blank!
