I think I will be the lone nay sayer about DOA. I gave it to my son the spring before kindergarten. He scored very high in most areas. As in maxed out oral vocab and word recognition. I was all excited that he would pass the exam for early entrance to first grade. This test said he was overall at a fourth grade reading level. Needless to say, he was at the 79th percentile of those kids leaving kinder/entering first grade. He was not early entranced to first grade.
hmmmm interesting. I definitely don't think it's the end all be all, like I mentioned, why we are doing private testing soon. But I do know for DD it is pretty accurate on reading level at least. When she took the test right before she turned 4 and then saw the schools developmental psy, her reading comp on the test was 3rd grade and he measured her at 3rd grade as well with his assessment. As for spelling, DD is doing 3rd grade spelling in homeschool this year and pretests right on at least 3/4 of the words each week, so I think that was about accurate. But I wouldn't put all my stock into it as it is a computer program that is fairly brief and their for a few right guesses can definitely skew results I believe.
