Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment Help with the WISC IV test results.

I always wonder about this sort of thing with the prepping that goes particularly in NYC-type places. I read one article about one of the tutor places parents send their kids to prepare for the test. The article specifically talked about how this child said to the tutor after so may sessions - "You don't need to tell me the directions I know what to do." I always wonder "do they prep the kids on how to not make it obvious that they had been prepped?" If not, isn't obvious all the kids have been prepped? Doesn't that invalidate results? Is it only the WISC that is spoiled by prepping? I thin kthe article was about the COGAT.

I couldn't "prep" my son ... He'd tell the tester right away. And anytime I tell him not to tell someone something then it becomes that he HAS to tell. The night before his OLSAT test I told him about the test - just to assuage anxiety and I told him it would be like his mind-benders and analogies book that he has done on and off with DH in the past(somehow DH got it in his that mind-benders and such help with critical thinking and got some book called mind-benders to do with him). Anyway, I told him I though the test would be like that. (I wasn't even sure!) Well, because they were concerned about his vision disorder and accommodations, he took the test with the school psych (instead of with the class) and he told her he practiced the test! She didn't seem concerned but I was really embarrassed. He never "practiced the test"! And he hadn't done the mind-benders book in like a year, I think.