IMHO, If we are to spend the money to get this done, I'd rather give them what they seem to be looking for.
This is quite a reasonable request in my opinion. I'm hoping to find peers for DD and if she isn't at the same level as the other children, this won't help me reach that goal for her.
Incog
Please let me warn you that pinning hopes on a single achievement test may not be reasonable. If you get what you want/expect, then great!, but if you don't, then is it really reasonable to think that your DD is not a true peer to at least some of the DYS kids? There is a lot more that goes into that determination than just a score and a letter from DITD.
My sense, as I've read this board, studied the DITD material, looked at tests and read books over the last year, is that DYS cut-scores are set to pick up all level 5's, most level 4's and some level 3's (based on Ruf's levels of giftedness).{I made this up, so feel free to set me straight if I'm off base here} But I was just looking at Ruf's book and saw on the charts at the end of the chapter that over half the kids she places at level 4 who had testing in addition to the SBLM had a least one score that would *not* have made the DYS cut-off. Over 3/4 of the level 3 kids had at least one score the was below, and there was even a level 5 kid who had a score below the cut-off on one test. So my point is that scores on one or two tests just are not always going to tell the whole story.
I'm not saying to drive yourself crazy chasing THE score if the first one isn't as high as you expected. But I am saying that if you do some reading and pay attention to your child and other children and you still feel that the score and your perception just don't fit, then it's probably the score that's not accurate.
