The psych is not affiliated with the school. The school won't do any further testing and she won't be in the gifted program when is starts next year at this point. Her teacher has expressed the opinion that the CogAT proves that dd is not gifted and that the WISC scores are wrong.
That aside, the school does take the WISC. It was one of the factors used to id our older dd as gifted. Our older dd also has very high achievement scores and very consistent achievement scores, so it wasn't an issue of the school not believing the IQ test.
We are doing the testing for a few reasons:
1) to rule out learning disabilities/twice exceptionality
2) to see if she may be scores high enough to get into GT programming although I don't think the programming itself is that different than the regular class to warrant all this cost. However, not qualifying for it is just further proof to dd that she is lesser than her sister, which her teacher seems to have already convinced her of.
GT id in the school requires two of the following things:
1) an ability test (they will take the WISC even if the CogAT isn't high enough despite what her teacher said -- I checked)
2) an achievement test in the 95th percentile or above
3) a CSAP score (also achievement -- a NCLB test in Colorado) in the advanced category for reading (the only subject for which GT programming really exists in her school.
Right now, I have no idea where her CSAPs will fall -- won't know until the fall and her school administered achievement tests are all over the place, so they don't qualify her for the achievement piece. If the WIAT is high enough, that will.
