Originally Posted by HoagiesGifted
Brief intelligence tests.

Some tests also have a "brief" version that can be administered to an individual child in 15-20 minutes, e.g. the K-BIT (Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test). Brief tests are designed as screening measures, to determine which students should proceed to a full evaluation. Schools and districts sometimes use these brief measures as the only evaluation, resulting in an incomplete assessment of the gifted children. Brief measures have so few questions that they can result in scores that do not correlate well to full intelligence tests.

http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/tests_tell_us.htm

KBIT is really just appropriate as a screening measure. If the measure which provided the "other" score is a WISC then it would have been a long individually administered assessment and would be the more reliable measure of your child's IQ. If the "other" score is a RIAS then you are just seeing the variability of these short IQ screeners. They really aren't suitable to use like a full assessment.

Last edited by HappilyMom; 05/02/13 07:52 AM.