I just got my daughter's Iowa test results. She's a first grader. They take a nationally normed test every year. Last year it was Stanford. When she was 4 she took the Woodcock Johnson.
Most of the scores are in the 98-99 percentile. 3 are not. She was in the 85th percentile for reading, with a GE of 2.6, word analysis was 81 percentile and listening was 67th percentile.
BUT she reads at a really high level. I think she had close to the same GE as a 4 year old and she had about 2 grade levels higher GE last year on the Stanford (and, yes, I know the GE stuff is total garbage.) In any case, I'm assuming she just misbubbled some things. I'm just not really worried about that.
I have more questions about listening and word analysis.
Is word analysis something you need? She learned to read whole words and she's not the best speller, but she can still make mainly As on spelling tests. I was an early reader as well and I know that there were some skills I didn't develop because I didn't have reading instruction. She doesn't get real reading instruction either. I am curious about whether I need to be concerned with her having missed some kind of word analysis skill that is important. Does anyone know if I should be concerned about this?
She has ALWAYS scored low on listening. This is very concerning to me because while she gets good grades, her teachers tell me that she does not listen. She also has trouble looking people in the eyes, so she doesn't appear to be listening and she has DCD. She gets very low behavior scores for listening, following directions, and using time wisely. That's her achilles heel at school.
To me the fact that she scores low in this area means that she needs help, not punishment--but I don't see them using any other strategies. Does anyone know what the listening section entails and how I can do things at home that help her increase her listening skills? I feel like most of her teaching has to come from home because school doesn't know how to teach the things she needs, but I don't know what skills these standardized listening tests encompass or what I can do to help her develop them.
Also, if I ask to talk to someone at school about this Iowa test will I just look like a crazy lady that's not happy with her child's generally very high scores? It's not about wanting high scores, it's about me seeing problems that no one addresses because they aren't severely affecting her in elementary school.
