My kids' district is starting a brand new gifted program this year, and I nominated our son for assessment. The district stated that they were going to use a 95th percentile cutoff: 95th composite on CogAT, ITBS, *and* SIGS. I estimated this would limit their applicability to about 1% of the population or less, and the cover letter that came along with the test results confirmed that this was the district's intent. They didn't expect more than one student to qualify, K-12.
Now, I knew that my son is not PG. But it turns out that he did score in the 9th stanine on the CogAT. (98th percentile verbal/98th quantitative/97th nonverbal) Which seems to confirm my instinct that he's a pretty high ability learner. However, his ITBS results were quite mediocre. His ELA total was 72nd, his math total was 90th, and his composite was 79th.
The district has disqualified him for services, but I guess I would just run these scores by y'all. Doesn't this seem to indicate a discrepancy of some sort? Any suggestions about how to start resolving it?
