OLSATs will no longer be used in District 20 middle school placements
There’s going to be a change in the way gifted and talented students will be placed into middle school in District 20, beginning with current fifth graders who would be advancing in September, 2014.
Going forward, OLSAT test scores – for the past several years a component of assessing whether students should be placed into a gifted and talent program or not — will no longer be counted, according to Community Education Council District 20 President Laurie Windsor.
Windsor explained that gifted and talented students used to be placed in middle school using a composite score comprised of 50 percent of the OLSAT results and 50 percent of the state exams, specifically 25 percent from the state English Language Arts test and 25 percent from the state math test.