My daughter was just placed in Program Challenge, which is our schools gifted services. She is now entering second grade, she is 6 going to turn 7. We have never doubted she was gifted. We were just waiting for her maturity to catch up to her peers before testing her, because we were unsure how she would do on their "motivation" requirement. She was a preemie, born in August and her adjusted birthdate put her with a late September birthdate. So, she is a year ahead in school since they don't look at adjusted dates. I hope this makes sense.

Anyhow, they decided to test her last spring, but the testing administrator was out on maternity leave. What resulted was different county teachers who were certified to administer coming to the school to give parts of the test. None of us knew when the kids would be tested. It was very random, there was no practice exercises, I didn't know what the testing looked like, etc. in other words, I have heard parents prep their kids for these things, and we did no such thing. We had just sold our house and bought a new one. We were packing and unpacking and moving to another home.

Excuse me for all of that rambling!

So, here are the tests she took:
CoGat for mental ability
Terra Nova for achievement
Divergent feeling scale/divergent thinking scale (?) for creativity
GES/Hawthorne for motivation

When the regular teacher returned from maternity leave, she told me that my daughter was exceptionally gifted, because she had qualified in all four areas of testing, that this was extremely rare, and she had entire areas of the test where she did not miss any questions.

So, we get the results, and are confused by one battery, and what it means in relation to her other scores. Make no mistake, I have known this child was gifted since she was around a year old, I just don't understand what this one score means in terms of her potential, or if this one test is even valid. We did not know the CoGat was to be administered the day it was, we were moving that day, she slept in the new house on a mattress on the floor and went to bed at almost 1 a.m. With testing at 7 the next morning. Ack!

CoGat: (option a 99 composite, option b 96%+ on any one component)
Verbal 97%
Quantitative: 99%
Nonverbal: 69%
Composite: 98%

Terra Nova: (minimum 90%in at least one sub-test below)
Total reading: 99%
Total math: 95%

Creativity Divergent feeling/thinking (minimum of 90%)
93%

GES/Hawthorne (minimum of 90%)
>99%

OK. What does the 69 on the nonverbal mean in relationship to her other scores? I have been reading about the nonverbal test, and it seems some places use it alone to test for gifted, and some use in conjunction, and some say it is not beneficial on its own and must be used in conjunction. Apparently our state doesn't seem to out much weight in the score here in relation to the others, as when she started her new school this week, the gifted teacher here was well wanted to tell me how high her scores were, and how rare it was to see a child her age and as young as she is in relation to her peers score gifted in all four areas. They expect to see three areas to be deemed eligible for Program Challenge.

Sorry so wordy. I actually had an enjoyable afternoon yesterday googling and reading about the different tests they administered and what they looked for.

Not sure anyone here is interested in MBTI, but I am N INFJ and my husband is an INTP.