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Hi, I recently requested a copy of my daughter's school records, including GT screening that was done in 2nd grade. Our system uses the InView as one of its measures. My question: Is the InView like the WISC-IV in that the subtests have scores of ... I don't know what on the low end, to a ceiling of 19? The system provides no other numbers or interpretation other than that one number for the 4 subtests. Same with the Renzulli and the Raven--a "GT qualifying criteria" score and then the child's scores on the measure. Zero explanation or interpretation. I've looked on Hoagies, googled, but can't seem to find any additional information/interpretation anywhere. Can anyone shed any light on this?

And while we're on the topic, what would you consider adequate /necessary information to have in order to interpret school system screening? My system is moving toward a "no label" model where they still do the test...but don't designate yes GT or not GT. Instead they claim they're going to give parents *more information*. I remain sceptical.

The ITBS achievement test offers the CogAT cognitive assessment and the TerraNova achievement test offers the InView as a cognitive assessment. They are extremely similar as best I can tell. My son has had both, the InView in 5th and the CogAT in 7th.

We only received percentiles for each subtest, the total nonverbal, the total verbal and the overall total for the InView. I believe the hard ceiling of 141 is correct and would result from a 99th percentile in every single subtest. My son had a total score of 99th, but did not achieve that high for each subtest. The CSI (Cognitive Skills Index) score for him on the 5th grade test was 135 with a given range of 128-141.

Ah but that's the thing....there are no percentiles just "scores" for the subtests, as in a subtest score of 19, 15...etc. There's no "translation" into "this is 98th percentile." Can I safely assume that a "19" on a subtest is the ceiling?

Hmm. I don�t know because my report doesn�t have subtest scores. It does have a few blank columns before the percentile column though!