I was counting on the CogAT to give me more info to decide if we need to seek furthur evaluation. When I look at the characteristics of gifted, I find him more in the HG or PG range but his CogAT score is not that great to believe that. I would think that an HG or PG kid would score much better than my son.
Not at all! My younger dd took the WISC-IV, an individual IQ test, and the CogAT a few months apart when she was 7-8 yrs old. Fortunately she took the IQ test first or I might have been inclined like you to think that she was bright, maybe eligible for GT programming, but not way out of the norm. She did quite well on the non-verbal part of the CogAT and fine but not as high as your ds likely did on the other two parts. On the WISC her composite score was above DYS minimum levels although she probably is more HG than PG. She is also 2e and probably the source of my dislike of the CogAT - lol!
If your ds seems HG, I'd see nothing in his CogAT scores that would belie that. Does he at least qualify for GT programming? I would think that he should. Also keep in mind that the CogAT is not designed with the level of specificity to tease out 99 from something above 99.
