As far as I understand, the WPPSI-III can be used to assess individuals whose age range from 3 y/o to age 7 and 3 months. If the child being assessed is administered the WPPSI-III at age 7 and 3 months and school later responds that due to the close age ranges and the nature of WPPSI-III and WISC-III that the proper test should have been the WISC-III, can the parents rightfully maintain their arguement that the child was in fact given the correct exam?
In other words, if at age 7.3months you are given WPPSI-III and perform in the 99th %le should those results be counted as reliable even though the WISC-III offers tests for ages 6-16?
This happened to me when I was in kindergarten. From what I have read on this website, it is possible for me to have hit the ceiling on the first test, and instead of my parents being told that, the school -- which, by the way, mentioned before I was tested, that they thought it best for gifted children to be identified later on in their academic life, and therefore I was too young to be put into the program -- regardless, I was tested with the WPPSI-III and did very well, then the school came back and said that I had been given the wrong test. I did not even qualify based on the second test. The percentile drop was RIDICULOUS--this second administration was a couple of months later.
I believe the most accurate story to be that I hit the ceiling, but hey. I did not qualify for gifted on the second test. My parents did not send me to private psychologist to be tested a third time, even though each and every one of my teachers in my remaining elementary years and throughout middle school said: "He needs to be challenged. He misbehaves yet knows the material. All the way through high school these type of comments were common. I am now a freshman in college and am seriously considering having myself tested AGAIN to see if I can get into MENSA. According to the home test I should qualify without much trouble.
You may be wondering, well if Mensa says...then why are you asking? Because I just want to know if similar stories were around, and this seemed like the perfect forum to ask about them. And I just need some sort of confirmation. It should also be noted that I am diagnosed with attention deficit disorder as well. Lastly, I know only of the results from the first test by word of mouth from my parents, neither of whom can "find" the results of the first test that is at home, "somewhere."
Thanks. If I find the first test with the 99th percentile score, which should I count to be most valid?
