Thanks to everyone--this has been insightful--I'm a real planner, so I think part of the home schooling issue for me is being able to have a looser structure and also not being able to completely see the exact path to college-level work. But reality is that we haven't been following the path anyway, this would just be not following the traditional path in a different way!
I like the idea of IOWA testing because our school system uses this test up to 7th grade. DS9 took the 7th grade IOWAs last year (at age 8 and a 6th grader) and scored high enough that the school wanted to put him fully in 8th grade--DS9 didn't want any further acceleration, so we did not accelerate further.
I have a couple of questions about the IOWAs:
Does anyone know how far in grade-level they go? Up to grade 12?
How do you get the IOWA administered?
Do you recommend he take his "grade-level" IOWA or out of grade level to show true progress?
Also, what about taking the ACT or SAT?
Thanks again--Julie
