Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment Preparing for testing + 2E evaluation

Hello,

Our son who is not quite 5 will undergo gifted testing this summer, as it is standard for our school district to test all incoming kindergarteners. Additionally, my son has pretty debilitating anxiety and we are setting up a formal evaluation with a psychologist and starting play therapy this summer. The school tests for giftedness using CogAT and the Iowa assessment. The psych evaluation involves an entirely different battery of WPPSI, Woodcock-Johnson, and VMI testing. I’m a newbie, and this is all Greek to me. However, I have read on this site before about problems with too many exams or competing exams... in this case the test are for different purposes and they are not the same exams, but from what I understand some are quite similar. Is this potentially problematic? Should I talk to the school to see if the private testing could be used to evaluate his eligibility for the program so as not to put him through too many exams? All advice is welcome!