I'm going through the psychologist's report on the WJ cognitive assessment (I don't have the achievement portion yet). In the section on processing speed, she discusses the fact that ds had a 21-pt spread between the two subtests that comprise the score for processing speed. She says "he seemed a bit more distracted by his own thinking on this subtest, and he made several errors which, nevertheless, were logical based on his thinking. To some extent, he 'overthought' on this subtest." (I'm not sure which subtest she was referring to).
For me, this brings to mind many testing situations I've had over the course of my life in which the test tries to "trick" the test takers, somewhat, in the hope of spreading out the bell curve. In any event, what do I make of her comment? Have you ever heard a tester make a comment about overthinking? Does it happen often? Just sounded weird to me...
In any event, this test has left me longing to do a WISC (or similar) on ds. I don't like the way the subtests seem to be broken down. I don't have all the subtest scores, just the vague descriptions of the "clusters". For example, I think it's strange that auditory short-term memory plays a specific role in both the Cognitive Efficiency Cluster and the Working Memory Cluster. It would be more helpful if the groupings were more straightforward. I'm anxious to get the subtest scores...
Last edited by snowgirl; 03/13/09 08:07 PM.
