Can I take my child to a private psychologist for an IQ test in order to identify him/her as a CUSD GATE student?
CUSD does not accept IQ test scores as the sole means of GATE identification. If the classroom teacher initiates a portfolio for a student in the spring, his or her parents may include the IQ test as one part of the multiple measures portfolio placement process. Q: My child does extremely well in school, but scored below the 95th percentile on the OLSAT or NNAT test. Please explain how this can happen. A: The OLSAT and NNAT are abilities tests which measure critical and abstract thinking. Each winter, CUSD offers the OLSAT and NNAT to many high-achieving students who are doing very well in school. Students can be high-achievers, without showing signs of giftedness. For example, in the classroom high-achieving students often learn in a linear fashion, while the gifted student thinks divergently and rapidly. High achievers often participate and ask a lot of questions and the teacher provides the answers. The gifted child often asks questions about abstract ideas and concepts that may not
