Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums General Discussion Testing Quote from Mensa site

"How do I go about testing my young child?

This is a difficult question to answer. All available tests are standard score tests based on a ranking of all children who take the tests. The test will only tell you how many other children your child outscored; it will not tell you "how gifted" or how different your child's thinking and reasoning are. The old Stanford-Binet LM is still the only test that can do that, but you must give your child the standard score test first or schools may not accept the results due to the age of the SBLM."

Just interested in everyone's take on this. I don't know anytihng about the SBLM. Comments, discussion?

Mia and I thought about using it with our boys, mainly because we had both been given the LM when we were kids, and we felt like we'd have a better handle on just where our kids really placed if we could place them in relation to us. It was not really about submitting test scores anywhere or ceilings or any of that; it was just for our own understanding of our kids.

I didn't go any further with it than considering it, however, and I don't think Mia did either. Since I started homeschooling, I feel like I have a much better grasp of my DS7's strengths and weaknesses, so I'm not likely to follow through.

FWIW...