Hey folks, a couple friends from dance school said they got their kids' Cogat and Naglieri results (both in the same county as us). We might get ds' today.
Without even having the paper in hand, my concern from their conversation is that I won't know what the heck the whole thing means. One of the moms didn't mention numbers, but she just said I'm going to set up an appt. with the teacher to get this figured out. A nice measured approach. It was the Cogat results for her dd, and she just said it was a lot of numbers. Is there a good explanation of these online somewhere (or will that come with the results?)
From this thread it sounds like there is one or maybe three big numbers, and they sound pretty similar to an I.Q. score. Is that what the Cogat is giving? (Hope that is not majorly dumb question
Same basic question for Naglieri - the other Mom, who is a teacher and obviously very serious about getting her child into the gt program, was really excited about the numbers her dd got, a 122 on the Naglieri. She was doing a pretty good imitation of one of 'those pushy moms' you always hear about, but frankly I wanted to pick her brain about it.
Actually she said "E. is up for the gifted program", as if every other child in the entire county was not up for the program. Hm.
Sigh, I just felt she was giving the whole thing a bad feel.
Anyway, I held back because the other mom was looking a bit uncomfortable (I think she had not gotten Nag. scores, so it wasn't a 1:1 comparison kind of discomfort). I tried to be simultaneously excited for Mom#2 and commiserating on the incomprehensibility of the whole thing with Mom#1...
So I would like to pick everyone's brain on this one - is the Naglieri "NUMBER" pretty equatable to an iq score? (at least for nonverbal stuff?)
Anyway, if this is all too vague, hopefully I will actually have the silly numbers in a day or two and I can post back. Just had to get that off the brain. Thanks!
