Like I mentioned in the last e-mail your e-mail sounds similar to my son as he had a large discrepancy as well. His scores are below. We struggled with the results and the fact that our school district said his overall score was a 126 which was obviously brought down due to the VCI. Everything I read said when you have a descrepency of 23 pts or more you shouldn't give an overall score. They really should have done more testing but of course they didn't. He hit the ceiling on two of the areas within the PSI which is another reason we didn't know if the score was valid. His PSI was at 99%. Our son has ADHD and was on medication when taking the test. He is much quieter when on the medicine we had wondered how that played into the VCI. Knowing that this part of the test is more verbal. If he wasn't wanting to talk much or answer questions it really could have impacted his test results. It also seemed this part of the test could be a little more subjective which was interesting to me as we know the school district would not have necessarily wanted to put him in the gifted range (which is 127 overall score) because we were inquiring on accelerating up in one subject. Just seemed really odd to us that he scored 1 point below this and it was the verbal portion of the test that clearly pushed the score lower.
What did you ever find out about your childs results and what they might mean?
I would love to hear what you learned.
Thanks!
Sum of Scaled scores:
Verbal Comprehension VCI 100
Perceptial reasoning PRI 127
Working Memory sum of scaled WMI 126
Processesing Speed PSI - 133
Full scale FSIQ = 126
