Not exactly "useful" but then again, we didn't really understand what we were looking at with DD at the time, Loy. So when we tested DD +1yr out of level and she ceilinged EVERY subsection on the achievement test... we just interpreted that to mean that we needed to probably go "to the next year."

What we SHOULD have done (hindsight being 20/20) is gone up at least 2y in the achievement battery and tried again so as to get a clearer picture of where she started to come down from those ceilings. Does that make sense?

I'd say that grade level achievement testing probably can be quite a powerful tool-- if you understand that "99th percentile" means... this test was too easy for the child, we should evaluate after going up a couple of grade levels.


Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.