Our tester is no longer using the SB V for any testing because he did not like the results he was getting.
Did you get any more details on this, SP? I've read Ruf's report (warning: PDF)
"SB5 Assessment Bulletin Number 3", and she says that the gifted population in the norming sample for the SB5 had an average score of 123.7. (She cites the SB5 Interpretive Manual itself for this data.) Presumably this gifted population had an average score > 130 on some other test or tests prior, so this suggests that the SB5 might score low for gifted kids. And Ruf concludes exactly this in her report: the standard gifted categories, she says - 130 for MG and 145 for HG+ - do not apply to the SB5. Gifted cutoffs are lower on this test.
From memory I think we have some anecdotal evidence for this around here. I think I remember that Kriston's now DS8, for example, showed a supporting pattern: low(er) on SB5 at 5ish and high on WISC IV a year or two later. And perhaps JBDad's DS too? I can't remember.
Still, there seems to be a countercurrent that suggests the problem, if there is one, is in the other direction. One sometimes hears rumors of kids - especially in the 5-6 y.o. range - scoring extraordinarily high (perhaps artificially high?) on the SB5. I'm pretty sure I saw Dottie say this once, but I can't find the post. Am I mis-remembering Dottie? Were these really results for the SB4 instead of the SB5?
Anyhow, the question is what we are supposed to take away from these conflicting impressions. Are the results from the SB5 artificially low? Artificially high? Are they really just right? What kind of discontent are people feeling with the test, if any?
Or maybe just a first question to Dottie and Kriston and JBDad: am I remembering correctly what you've said?
Puzzled (as usual),
BB
