An Individual Being Tested for a Gifted Program Scores a 132

Multiple Choice

An individual being tested for a gifted program scores a 132 on the Cognitive Ability Test (CogAT) , which has a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 16. There is a .40 correlation between the CogAT score and success as measured by GPA in the gifted program, which has a weighted mean of 4.3 with a SD of .2. Use the Standard Error of the Estimate (SE_est) to predict where this students GPA will fall 68 percent of the time.

A) 4.7 ± .18
B) 4.3 ± .2
C) 4.5 ± .4
D) 4.7 ± .15
E) None of these