OK...after doing some searching on previous emails, thankfully I found the response from his school this past fall after not being allowed to GT (I believe the response is from the GT teacher). Here is her response...(KL is my son; Mr. D is his 4th grade teacher who highly recommended GT and also said no to our idea of possibly having him return to the grade he should be in)...
First of all he did receive a very high recommendation from Mr. D (his previous, 4th grade teacher) which started the process. We then took into account all of his academic scores which were very strong. The screener that we administered to KL also had high scores. These were just our basis for deciding that an IQ test would be administered. This is the first year our district has required a specific level score on the IQ test in order to be served by the GT program. This was primarily because of the number of students who have been scoring high on all other academic areas. This separates what we refer to as �high achieving� students from those who have the intellectually abilities recognized by the IQ test. Generally many of our successful students are those who have the �high achieving� academic abilities. That is one reason that our district has now provided the accelerated math and reading classes at the 4th and 5th grade level.
KL�s IQ composite scores was 111 � our district requires a minimum score of 125. It is broken down into two sub tests including verbal and non verbal. KL was very consistent in both areas. Verbal � 111 Non-verbal � 110. These put him in the 77% and 75% rank respectively. It is done according to age not grade in school.
If I could just decide on who makes it in based on a student�s motivation to work and personality, I would certainly have chosen KL�.he is a wonderful student and we thoroughly enjoyed the amount of time we were able to work with him last year in enrichment. As you probably can understand, I don�t have that option and we must have some concrete basis for our decisions.
Thanks again!
