Hello all! Sorry this is kind of long but I'm getting worried and I desperately need your wisdom!
Briefly...Everything going along great...Principal tells us DS will finally be subject accelerated in science and social studies...We are thrilled. Then the phone call..."First one in the district, so to be sure and have everything documented, we need to have him achievement tested as well" (The kid has already had the SBS AND the WISC(sigh) both showing highly gifted (slow processing & memory) Both psychologists stated in summary he is more than ready to handle classes three years or so ahead...Last year took the EXPLORE as a 5th grader that showed he did as well as or better than 85% of 8th graders in science and reading, which are the subjects we want him accelerated in. So get the WIAT-III scores back and I have no idea what to make of these scores. Pseudoword decoding he scored 5% (yikes!) but reading comprehension 88%, listening comprehension 95%, essay composition 87%, word reading 63% sentence composition 42%, and then spelling 13% (Spelling not surprising) Then we have the math which is really odd....math problem solving 90%, numerical operations 87% but then math fluency in addition is only 6%??? Oral reading and oral expression, which I thought would be sky high was only 63% and 47%. This is a kid who reads and comprehends college textbooks and has the most amazing vocab and oral expression! What gives??? I am completely clueless! Then there is a sheet that is titled "Differences Between Composite Standard Scores" and under "Significant Difference" there is a yes for 11 out of 21 catagories. Should I be worried??? Could these scores hurt his subject acceleration??? We have a "Team" meeting with everyone Friday and I want to be totally prepared. I know DS is underachieving but these scores seem so stange to me. Please, please help me figure it all out. I have more numbers if you need more info on anything. I sure would appreciate it! Thank you so much!!!
