Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment About to pick up Cogat Scores UPDATED :(

Well S^&*. If I am reading the report correctly this is useless. Dd's grade percentile rank:
Verbal 40
Quant 88
Nonverbal 62
Composite 67

That is not my kid. I have experience teaching kids in pre-k through 5th and I know what is typical, she is not typical and the verbal score in particular is just shocking. I can't imagine the reasons that would lead to those scores. I believe the teacher read the questions out loud so she couldn't have rushed. Maybe she bubbled wrong? Or completely overthought? Anyone who knows her, including the school secretary when I picked up the scores, was like, wha??? That can't be right. She has a huge vocabulary etc.

Argh.

I thought she would at least qualify for the gifted 1 day/week pull-out that starts in Jan. and that we would go ahead and test in the spring for more info. I hate that she will now not start the gifted pull-out and wonder what she will think when a significant number of kids from her class go. We don't have the money until the spring anyway, but this is so frustrating! No easy answers with this kid.

Edited to add: these scores are also not consistent with her classroom performance. Grrrr. Stupid CogAt.