Dazey,
From what I can see in DS's case, he is able outside a test environment to show a much greater ability level than the tests show when he is able to work at his pace and according to his interests. I guess that makes sense - we all do better doing what we want and love. Although his WJ-3 ACH scores put him around 5th grade equivalents (+2 to chrono age), his ability in online classes in actually about +4 to chono age. His gifted teacher realizes that his test scores do not give the entire picture and works with him accordingly with challenge work as well as advancement.
There seems to be alot of controversy about ability versus IQ when processing and memory scores are lower. I'm still working my way through alot of this information and am not sure what my opinion is yet.
I do keep toying with the idea of the SB-5 since DS loves to test and maybe it would help with the timed issues... I probably won't do it though since we are getting what we need right now from the school and although it would be nice to have the numbers for DYS, this board meets most of my needs
(Part of the problem is also distractability in the testing. Even some of the untimed sections got a bit out of control since DS would go off on tangents that interested him
. The Psych thought that his scores would have been alot higher if DS hadn't said what if so much and changed the questions in his head to make them more interesting. No question that Fluid Reasoning was his highest score:) Since DS talked out loud, the Psych could see where he was going and what he was doing but had to score the test as designed.)
