A little background first-my 8yo daughter Piper was tested last year in school with the Otis Lennon and Stanford-Binet. I had asked about getting her tested in the fall, and was told they only test in the spring, basically. When her results came back she did not qualify for GT, which I'll admit threw me for a loop, the kid was reading Harry Potter. I expressed some concern about the testing method-ie, large group, and she's on a number of meds that cause distractibility. I was told she could re-test the beginning of this school year. Long story short she was only in the classroom for about two weeks at the beginning of the year due to health issues, and has been on homebound instruction since.
Next year (she'll be 4th grade) we're going back to the classroom. During her last hospital admission (she has Cystic Fibrosis), the hospital teacher expressed an interest in testing her! I agreed (maybe somewhat eagerly, lol), and she was given the WJ iii Achievement test. Here are some of her scores...
Total Achievement-148
Broad Reading- 152
Broad Math- 127
Broad Written Language- 138
Academic Skills- 136
Academic Fluency- 154
I was actually a bit surprised her math was as high as it was, lol! I was not surprised by the reading scores. I guess my question is whether the school should still hassle me about getting her into GT with these scores? (We're in VA). I would also think her reading scores would qualify her for differentiated ed at the least? Also, I don't have the grade equivalencies, and am curious about where they would fall..is there a conversion chart or anything of that nature I could use? I would just hate to hassle the hospital teacher about it.
Thank you all so much, I just want to be prepared when I speak to the school about it, they tend to brush off GT as "no big deal", when I know Piper is bored stiff half the time.
-Amanda
