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    I posted a few weeks ago that my daughter was not invited into our school district's GATE program because her NNAT score, which is the only criteria our district uses, was 93%. Our district's cut off for GATE is 95%. I had outside testing done for her a few years ago to advocate for acceleration, and also so we could apply for the gifted private school in our area. IQ and achievement testing showed her in the EG range, plus she was accepted to the highly gifted school. (We declined for multiple reasons.) I gave these documents to our district but they still denied her, saying admittance is based solely on the Naglieri. We are still going to advocate for her. I just today received her standardized SBAC results. Highest score achievable on these tests are 2623 for Literacy and 2621 for Math. My daughter scored 2600 on literacy and 2595 on math. And while I know these measure knowledge, and not necessarily intelligence, I will include these results when we go back to advocate. So my questions is: I'm wondering if anyone else has experience using standardized test results as an advocacy tool for giftedness.

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    Caveat first: while SBAC scores are nominally on a continuous vertical scale across grades, since not all grades see the same item difficulty, the highest and lowest scores obtainable in a grade (your DC's scores would fall in the former category) are less reliable than those in the middle, and may be either over or underestimates of true academic achievement. They are subject to many of the same interpretive caveats as grade equivalent scores, since they are samples of skills, rather than comprehensive surveys of all grade-level instructional requirements.

    That being said, if these were true scores, they would put her performance in the advanced (level 4) classification for fifth grade (at, presumably, third grade), comparable to proficiency (level 3) in the literacy score for 11th graders, and math score for 8th graders. Of course, as SBAC only allows items up through grade 4 on the grade 3 test, these levels are clearly rough estimates at best, and cannot be considered true scores.

    If you can find data on your district's performance (levels 1-4), and the percent of students who typically score at each level, you might have additional supporting evidence. This data is generally available on the state DOE site, listed by school district.

    Advocacy may also be more effective if you can demonstrate that your DC performed at these levels uniformly, across all of the skill areas encompassed by the broad literacy (4 areas) and mathematics (3 areas) scores.

    https://www.smarterbalanced.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2014-15_Technical_Report.pdf


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