(I crossposted this on Tagmax, in case anyone cares
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Hi all, we homeschool our DS6 (pulled him from Kindergarten a few months ago), the school refused to test him. I've suspected since he was very small that he's gifted. We finally decided to have him tested through a company that does a form of the WJ3 for state homeschool testing compliance. They only do a certain battery, but the price was significantly less than a full test through a private psychologist, so we thought we'd see what they could tell us. I was wanting to use it as a screening to see if it was worth it to invest in further testing. Unfortunately, I have no idea what the information means and because the tester isn't used to gifted testing and usually only tests for compliance purposes, wasn't able to give me any information beyond "He's very, very smart". I will say that he's highly perfectionistic and he flat out refused to answer some of the questions despite encouragement from the tester.
I'm sure that he's bright, but I was looking for confirmation that he's gifted. If the scores don't show he's gifted, that's fine, it's more for future planning purposes and curiosity that I'm wanting to know. He's 6 years 5 months old and he was tested with norms based on grade 1.9 (as soon as we brought him home for homeschool, I promoted him to 1st grade and we did 1st grade in 2 months before we went on break for 2 months). If someone has some time, could you please help me interpret his scores?
Thank you so much!
Kimberly
Cluster/Test / RAW / GE / Easy to Diff / RPI / PR / SS (68% Band) / AE
Academic Skills / - / 3.6 / 3.0 - 4.4 / 100/90 / 99.5 / 138(135-141) / 8-10
Academic Knowledge / - / 4.1 / 2.8 - 5.7 / 98/90 / 91 / 120(115-126) / 9-3
Form A of the following achievement tests was administered:
Letter-Word ID / 55 / 5.3 / 4.4 - 6.5 / 100/90 / 99 / 137(135-139) / 11-0
Calculation / 10 / 2.4 / 1.9 - 3.0 / 96/90 / 81 / 113(104-122) / 7-9
Spelling / 28 / 3.3 / 2.6 - 4.2 / 99/90 / 91 / 120(115-125) / 8-5
Passage Comp. / 29 / 4.0 / 3.0 - 6.1 / 100/90 / 95 / 125(121-129) / 9-4
Applied Problems / 28 / 2.8 / 2.3 - 3.5 / 98/90 / 83 / 114(109-120) / 8-4
Academic Knowledge / - / 4.1 / 2.8 - 5.7 / 98/90 / 91 / 120(115-126) / 9-3
Punctuation & Capitals / 11 / 2.1 / 1.5 - 2.8 / 92/90 / 59 / 103(93-114) / 7-6
