Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment I Q question

When we did the WJIII achievement test the tester generated scores without broad scores. After my request they produced the broad scores.

I was wondering is there more than one way to give out scores for IQ? Should I ask for something so the tester does not have to generate scores twice.

"IQ" scores are not generated from an achievement test. The WJIII Test of Cognitive Abilities would generate ability scores, or the WISC-IV, SB-5. Standard scores are generated - broad scores are just composite scores. Broad math includes all the math subtests, and give you an idea of how well your child is performing in math in comparison to same-age peers. The subtest scores are just more specific, for computation or problem solving, for example.

Some people have received score reports (from school psychologists) with only percentiles listed.

At the place where my kids were tested, the psychologists had a computer program that generated score reports. I'm not sure how much control they had over the format of the output.

Adding to what Dottie wrote, if the test is the WISC-IV, you can also get a General Ability Index (GAI) score. This score removes the Working Memory and Processing Speed scores, and gives you a score based on Verbal Comprehension and Perceptual reasoning.

Dottie and ch64- Is asking for this no big deal? In terms of the testers efforts- would this request make them mad in any way? My situation feels very delicate.

I offered a DYS portfolio of my son's work to the principal and she was insulted. She said, I think our teachers know their students very well. I told her I'm not disagreeing but there was information in the portfolio that they would not know otherwise. She took it and talked about passing it on. They were also defensive about DYS and seemed worried they were going to take over. I tried to reassure them DYS is a good thing and told them we may not get accepted with our minimal scores. The school Psychologist/tester said his scores were not PG. I said they maybe looking at the scores a different way because they wanted broad score she didn't originally generate. In summary they are helping to give my DS some things to be excited about in school but they don't seem too happy with me. I tried so hard to keep it nice but it didn't go that way. It's a bit discouraging.

Dottie - Thanks for the advice.

Thank you. The waiting for the test results is so hard and then when I get it I wonder if I'll know what it means. The psychologist is suppose to explain the results.