I recently had my 7.5 year old son tested for gifted placement. I was expecting scores to be a bit squewed as ds first language is spanish and he has only been in an english speaking program for barely 2 academic years.
I received the following results:
Composite scores
Vci. 136
Pri. 143
Wmi. 110
Psi. 97
Fsiq. 132
Technically, this qualifies him for gifted.. However, the difference between pri and psi threw me for a loop. I did some research and requested that a GAI be calculatted, for accuracy.. But the tester is not so inclined... I've been attempting to calculate it myself, but wanted to get some help from you:
Verbal Comprehension subtest scores
Raw. Scaled. Percentile
Similarities. 26. 17. 99
Vocabulary. 34. 15. 95
Comprehension 25. 16. 98
Perceptual reasoning subtest scores
Block design. 30. 14. 91
Picture concepts 23. 19. 99.9
Matrix reasoning. 25. 18. 99.6
Working memory subtest scores
Digit span. 14. 12. 75
Letter-num seque. 15. 12. 75
Coding. 40. 8. 25
Symbol search. 28. 11. 63
Process summary is different.. I'm not sure how to put it here..
Process summary and discrepancy analysis
Process scores. Raw. Scaled
Digit spad forward. 9. 13
Digit span backward. 5. 9
Process score. Raw. Base
Longest dig span fwd. 5. 60.5%
Longest dig span bck. 3. 76%
Discrepancy comparisons
Ldsf - ldsb. Raw1. 5. Raw2. 3. Difference. 2. Base. 62.4%
Digit span fwd - digit span bck. Scaledscore1. 13. Scaledscore2. 9. Difference. 4
critical value 3.62. Sig. Diff? Yes. Base 14.2%
Now.. I think that the GAI should be close to 148, a very significant difference (16 points) from the fsiq. Is it worth my time to fight to have her amend her report and include this information?
What do you think?
Last edited by PAndrade; 04/03/13 03:39 PM.
