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hi all
my son will be taking the inView aptitude test in school next week- does anyone know how it correlates with WISC-IV? I have found only a couple of sentences about it on the web (including an entry on Hoagies) but no real info or experiences from others. I'd like to get confirmation that the hard ceiling is 140.. which it says on Hoagies but i can't find any other source. I want to make sure that if my DD7 scores say, a 139, that the school won't say "its only a 139" when if the hard ceiling is 140 then its really a great score.. if you get that! Also i read somewhere that it has a SD of 16- but is that really possible if there is a hard ceiling of 140.. Or does that just mean it doesn't bother to measure kids into the third SD above the mean?
irene

thanks dottie. its so frustrating to have all this info here about these different tests and my school seems to have gone for an oddball.
irene

My dd's district also uses the InView. Like you, I wish there were more information out there on this test.

My 2nd grader got a CSI of 141 on the InView. The range was given as 141-141, so it is my guess that she has in fact hit the ceiling on the test, validating the comment on the Hoagies site. I did get age- AND grade-based percentiless by section. And the results sheet noted that she hit the max score on a few sections. Overall she was in the 99th percentile.

The test has a mean of 100 and an sd of 16 so her index score puts her in the 2.5 sd range and there is no room to go up from there. It looks like it cannot accurately measure anything at or above that level, and so to get an accurate picture above that range, you'd have to go with a different test.

I have no idea how the InView score would correlate to any other IQ test, especially with the low ceiling limitation.

thank you SL9, my DD7 is actually taking the InView tomorrow so the timing of this is great. How long did it take for you to get results? I am wondering if its going to be a wait of a few months.. Also was the results sheet generated by the school or is it the one that the test company provides?
irene

Hi,
Our school system uses Inview as a screen for who should be tested for the AIG program later in the year. They test in 3rd and 6th grade. They keep it very under the radar and do not give the results out to parents unless you make a request. If you don't get your results within 4 weeks contact your school.
Wendy

We got ours from the district in 4-5 weeks.

Our school uses it for G&T identification with a 97th p'tile cutoff, along with the Terra Nova achievement test.

My daughter, just got her Inview score back and got a 141. She maxed out on two of the five subtests.

Our district uses the Inview for placement in our high cognitive gifted program.

CareBear, good for her!
Have you done any outside testing as well? I'm very interested in what that 141 could translate into on a more well known test.