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 (SEest) to predict where this students GPA will fall 95 percent of the time.
a. 4.7 ± .36
b. 4.3 ± .4
c. 4.5 ± .8
d. 4.7 ± .28
e. None of these
ANSWER: a
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