Thanks! That's great information!
I think "ceiling" definitely meant getting to the end of all the available questions without previously having been terminated due to a string of bad answers. Given this, are you saying that a child can get a scaled score of 17 or 16 (or less?) despite getting to the end of all the available questions, if they have enough 1s and 0s amongst the 2s? (FWIW he just turned 7.)
If I'm thinking wishfully, I'd wonder if maybe the tester thought 19+19+13=41. Is that also plausible? Should I ask them to check?
It's a pity they don't give more detailed information, as it would be valuable, and I wouldn't be having to speculate. (The testers said they are just certifying our son meets the criteria for gifted (>=2SD), and aren't being asked to go into details.) But I'd like to know what the details are and what they mean.
For example, what would VCI scaled scores of 17/16/8 imply about a child, given that the 1st 2 subtests (Voc and Sim) went through all the questions while Comp is 3SD lower?
I'm not sure about posting all this information, but I'm curious what else can be deduced from what information is available. For WISC-IV we only got percentiles (and nothing on individual subtests).
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What can be deduced from these numbers about the Standard Score and Sum of Scaled Scores in each category? I understand that in some cases the available information could only yield a range of possible values.
For WJ-III we got Standard Scores.
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What, if anything, should we make of such a combination of high and low scores?
