My DD was tested on CoGAT in the beginning of 5th grade. She scores 93 on verbal, 97 on Quantitative and 71 on non verbal with a composite of 93.
Based on this she was just accelerated in math to the next grade.
I believe that the child needs to score high on all three subtests to be considered for whole grade skip.


We got her tested from outside on WISC IV, she scored > 99 percentile. But the school/district still wanted to corroborate the scores. So they administered WJ-III. She got exactly the same score on that as well.

I agree with Dazed&Confused that they use CoGAT as their hard and fast test. We know a couple of kids who did not score high enough in CoGAT but tested very high on WISC IV.

Here is some information from Hoagies on grade skip:

http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/iowa_accel_scale.htm

and some more:

http://parentingagiftedchild.suite101.com/article.cfm/advocating_for_grade_acceleration

Thanks

Last edited by MTS; 04/30/09 09:50 AM.