Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment Help interpreting strange RIAS scores

I have rushed reading through this thread as I am supposed to be packing lunches, but I just wanted to chime in before I forget, that for both of my kids Picture Completion, which is like "What's Missing" and the other cartoon based tests on the Wechsler tests were their weakest areas, but both tested very high on the Raven's. I have no idea why this is and have yet to find someone to ask who can give me a good answer. Maybe it's a visual processing thing, maybe it's the nature of the cartoons... But I suspect that those subtests of their WISC/WPPSI scores were not very accurate for my girls, for what what they are supposed to be testing. But of course they might be.

If you have not noticed any signs of 2E, and her visual processing checks out ok, I would be leaning toward thinking that she just "checked out" for that one subtest. All kinds of things can make this happen. She could have been hungry, tired, distracted by something outside or in the room, or she might not have understood the instructions properly. Or she might have thought that that section was stupid or too easy and stopped trying. A test is a snapshot of one moment in time, and there are lots of things that can make us not perform at our best.

A talent search test would be a reasonable and economical next step.

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