Is there any reason at all that I should not have my ds7 (who turns 8 in December) take the Explore test in January or February? He's homeschooled, so I'm looking at it as a kind of baseline achievement test, as well as the experience he'll gain from taking a test like Explore.
If you're doing it for purely planning purposes and don't need an "official" score for anything like DYS, my recommendation would be for an out-of-level ITBS given at home. That's what I've decided to do this year rather than repeating the EXPLORE. The ITBS results are much more useful from a curriculum planning standpoint because they are broken down by topic.
