Hi, I have on and offed browsed this forum for a few years. I have a nine year old who is very bright and possibly gifted. He is very interested and motivated in math in particular and once in a while he will do something that really impresses me in this area (and has since he was very young.) His NWEA scores have never been super impressive. They are between the 80th and 95th depending on the year. He does have an A+ in math, in an accelerated group and complains of being bored.
We have moved to a new school, they asked to screen him using the CogAt and the GT teacher is impressed so far. She has not completed all the sections but has done what she calls the math section and abstract reasoning. She said he had an almost perfect score in the "math" part and scored very highly on the other section as well. She has taken him on in the interim for GT until she completes the rest of the test.
Is it typical that a child will have a high CogAt score and not have it translate into high NWEA scores? In the past, even though I feel the schools don't challenge/develop him in math I have been hesitant to bring it up because of the low NWEA scores. I was in GT as a kid, and know that 95th percentile is what they usually want. I was actually removed in fifth grade when my scores on the CAT tests dropped below this. It was hurtful and I don't want to set my son up to be disappointed.
I really just want to be able to use the CogAt test result to help advocate for differentiated instruction in math. The GT program is just a pull out program once a week.
