I am not certain that they do testing outside of the district MAP testing, etc. I am looking into that further.
Many children who are academically advanced can show their abilities quite well with the MAP test that is designed for students 2nd grade and up. This test is taken on a computer, and the more questions a child answers correctly, the harder questions are asked. Therefore you can compare your child's achievement to that of children in higher grades quite easily. This can be a big help in Advocacy. Just be sure your child understands that unlike other tests, with the MAP, the more the child knows, the longer the test will go on. The teachers may occasionally encourage the children to intentionally get a few questions wrong after 3 or 4 hours just to end the test (and who can blame them since they may believe that once a child is at grade level that their learning is going well 'by definition', so who needs to know exactly how far above grade level they actually are?)
smiles,
Grinity
