Hello,
My son (5), who we've suspected to be highly gifted for a while now, will start K this fall. In order to overcome my own imposter syndrome and get some better data about his current knowledge to help with school advocacy, we had our first testing done this week. We opted for something that wouldn't be too tiring but would give a sense of where he is. He was given the Woodcock-Johnson III Normative Update Test of Achievement, Form A. The tester indicated that there were a couple of different versions and the one he was given was the shortest. His scores look like they would be DYS qualifying, but I'm not sure if this particular test is accepted or if he would need one of the longer versions. Here are his standard scores (now edited for privacy):
Brief Achievement
Brief Reading
Academic Knowledge
Subtests:
Letter-Word recognition
Spelling
Passage Comprehension
Applied Problems
Academic knowledge
All are listed as >99.9 percentile except for academic knowledge (97th) and passage comprehension (99.6).
My questions are:
1) I see from the DYS qualification criteria that he would need 2/3 of "broad reading, broad math, broad achievement" to qualify with the Woodcock-Johnson III (ach). Since our score are called "brief", I assume these results can't be used?
2) Does anyone know how well this briefer form correlates with the longer version? Am I right to think that he would be quite likely to qualify for DYS if we had him take an accepted test? I am at a bit of a loss about how to approach schooling for him and think we could really benefit from an educational consultant.
Thanks in advance!
Last edited by Emigee; 08/08/18 11:57 AM. Reason: privacy
