Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment Is it worth taking the Explore test?

slammie, I _think_ performance on the SCAT in the talent search is always compared with students 2 grades up. Whereas I think the Explore is always compared against the same national sample of 8th graders?

DD already qualified for DYS with her WISC and WIAT.

Benjamin, that's really the question I'm trying to answer. IS there a reason to take another test in general? Or a compelling reason to take the Explore in particular? Would it be useful for the future to actually be able to compare her results on the same test 2 years apart and track growth? She's not likely to take any of the other tests again, so if it's useful to take the same test several times, then I suppose the Explore would be the way to go...