My daughter grade skipped Kindergarten based on TEKS scores and we later decided to have her tested with the WISC-IV because of inconsistent CoGat scores. She received the following scores on the WISC-IV (tested at 6 years 1 month) about a year ago.
VCI 121
PRI 137
WMI 120
PSI 136
FSIQ 137
Raw Score/Scaled Scores are as follows
Similarities 17/15
Vocabulary 26/15
Comprehension 13/11
(Information) 12/13
Block Design 22/13
Picture Concepts 17/22
Matrix Reasoning 22/19
Digit Span 13/12
Letter-Number Sequencing 15/15
(Arithmetic) 17/15
Coding 62/17
Symbol Search 34/16
The examiner found issues with comprehension, which also showed up in CoGat scores and TPRI testing. She started reading when she was 3 years old and can phonetically attack almost any word. The issue turned out to be that while she could read everything perfectly, she did not understand meanings of the words and therefore was missing a lot of the comprehension questions. At the first of school year, she missed almost half of the comprehension questions on the TPRI testing including all of the implied questions. Once we discovered the problem, we were more diligent about defining words and she is starting to overcome this stumbling block. At the end of Second Grade (just turned 7), she was reading at 165 WCPM and finally hit 100% across the board on the comprehension questions.
Has anyone else run into a similar issue? I know that high VCI is more typical for gifted kids on the WISC-IV but are there any other instances on lower comprehension gifted children?
