Wow, Dazey! I'd complain pretty loudly about the obvious incompetence of that tester! Was the child cooperating? What's the story there?
Still, if the school accepts outside testing if their own psychologist's testing doesn't show GTness, what's the harm in giving the school testing a try? (Except that if she muffs the test, you can't have that same test readministered for a year...) It's free, and I don't really see any significant risk there.
<shrug> For our part, I had known all along that DS7 was GT, figured he was MG...and then I saw his school-tested WJ-III scores and realized that we were in a whole different league! I didn't even request that the school do the testing: his K teacher recommended him for it.
After we saw the scores, we did pay for IQ testing for DYS admission, since the school only gave him the CogAT and not an individual IQ test. But the WJ achievement test was free and was what brought me to this forum and DYS in the first place.
I'm just saying that it's hard to beat free if there's no significant downside, provided you realize that any test is just one score on one day under a very specific set of circumstances, and that any child is more than just a number.
Of course, if there's a significant potential downside to school testing, then that would be a different story...
