Originally Posted by Cricket2
I, too, believe that the CogAT is underidentifying gifted kids, but I also believe that it is overidentifying non-gifted kids as gifted the same way achievement scores can. I guess what I am saying is that I generally don't think that it is a valid test of giftedness.

The question is, is it overidentifying when you stick to a 99th percentile score defining giftedness?

I'm in complete agreement that it is not a valid test of giftedness.

Last edited by Kai; 01/02/11 07:09 PM.