Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Parenting and Advocacy San Diego Quick--what is it?

I've been assessing kids during my volunteer time for the past 6 years. The kids and I have gotten a great bond because of all the one on one time. Coming from health care, it freaked me out a bit at first because I never was instructed that these scores should be kept private. I do make sure I don't tell anyone else how individual kids did, but no one ever told me not to, which still seems odd.

So much of our poor teachers' time is taken up with testing, I was glad to be able to take the testing off their hands so they could TEACH.

My DS did take the star test when he was in K, but that was because the K teacher wanted to get him started on higher level books. She took him down to a second grade classroom and had him made an honorary member of the class so he could log onto that computer. If you are on good terms with the teacher, you might mention that you wondered how he would do on a STAR test. Maybe you could escort him to wherever he needs to go to get it done during your volunteer time.

Not that I actually think its all that great a test--it's a fill in the blank multiple choice vocabulary test. One of the higher level words my DS got was "narcotics." I think he was in first grade at the time and I just kept thinking what kind of twisted home would my 6yo be from if he actually knew the word narcotics LOL. I was very pleased he got it wrong, actually!