Hello! I just found this site while trying to make sense of some testing my daughter had. The testing was for our town's magnet school program. They gave all the Kindergarten students one set of tests before school let out (I am trying to get her scores from that now, but I know one was in the 90s and one was 88 %ile). They classified her as gifted but referred her for more testing. Apparently there is a lot of information (race, gender, location, socioeconomic status) that goes into getting into the magnet school.
Anyhow, they told me she would take either a reading or math test 2 weeks after school let out. I told them reading, since she has been reading chapter books (Junie B. Jones, etc.) since she was 4. She is 5 now, will be 6 next month.
They gave her the RAIS (at least that's what I deciphered it to be). I called them back because it wasn't reading, and they said they changed how they test. Anyhow, I have seen a few parents on here asking about discrepancies when the percentiles have been only a few points apart, so I am a little concerned about my daughter's scores:
Verbal - 144 (99th %ile)
Non-verbal - 88 (21st %ile)
Question 1: How unusual is this? And how concerned should I be? I know my daughter still has trouble with the little 24 piece puzzles (forget hundreds of pieces like whatapuzzler's child!) and the psychometrist said she was trying during the test.
She goes back July 7th (right after her 6th birthday) to take another test. I asked the psychometrist if it was the WISC-IV since she had mentioned it, but she said no, it would be a different test.
Question 2: Regardless of the testing, is there something I can work on my daughter with to improve whatever these skills are that she is lacking? I don't even know what the non-verbal part of the test covers (or the verbal part, for that matter, but I guess she doesn't need help there).
Sorry my first post was so long, and thanks for any help or reassurance anyone can give. I look forward to learning a lot on this site!
Beth
