Does it strike anyone else as a problem that my child could see the tester's notations as she administered him the Stanford-Binet V? He already suffers (@ 8 yrs old) from low-level anxiety and perfectionism, and the first thing he told me after the test was, literally, "Mom, I got zeroes." I asked him what he was talking about, and he told me he could see the psychologist scoring his answers with "0, 1 or 2" and that he got "mostly 2s" but he also got "lots of zeroes." Fortunately, he seems to have performed okay (FSIQ 140), but he was nervous going in and, esp for kids with high degrees of anxiety &/or perfectionism, it just strikes me as potentially disastrous that they can see a string of zeroes as they attempt to answer questions. (Case in point, I believe: He said his pull-out teacher had encouraged him to at least venture an answer to every question, even if he wasn't sure, but that on "20 or 30" questions he didn't even hazard a guess. I'm positive that came out of the fact he was sweating the repeated notations of zero that he could plainly see.) Is this normal? I mean, should I mention it to anyone at the school so that they can change this for future testing? I don't know...maybe seeing 2s has the reverse effect, and actually bolsters esteem during the test-taking process, but it still doesn't sit quite right with me...
