I think I may have inadvertantly confused a bunch of people. So a little background.
DS7 was tested at 5 using the DAS II. The test wasn't completed as the school district was simply testing to qualify. The school that he is scheduled to start on Monday is a charter school located on the campus of our local University. The program is designed to allow for dual enrollment for kids that need college courses.
Because my DS is a student at the charter and because of his age, the college is requesting his IQ testing results. If the DAS II had been complete, I believe it would have been enough. The portion he took had some ceiling issues.
When I spoke to the GDC, they wanted to give my son the WISC IV, followed by the SB-LM. The woman I spoke to gave me a reasonable argument (she'd obviously made it before) as to why they wanted to use the LM as well as the WISC. I asked the question on here because I wanted to find out if there was a legitimate benefit to taking the LM. The LM was never intended to be submitted to the college.
The college has not requested achievement testing or any other sort of screening. My thinking is that if I'm going to have this done, I want just that....DONE! I don't want to be told two years from now that I need something else. So my thought was if I took him to a place that was aware of testing a PG kid, that I would get everything I need and never have to worry about it again. The ACT or SAT or EXPLORE are easily accessible and fall into a different category in my mind. They certainly fit much better into my budget! When the time comes my expectation is that he will participate in those.
But the laundry list of tests that the GDC suggested was quite long and quite expensive. So I was just trying to get some other opinions, since I don't know enough about testing to make a decision.
There! Hopefully we're all together now. After speaking to several of you privately and your posts on here this whole thing is just making me uneasy. I don't want to pay for a test simply to help the GDC continue in their pursuit of statistics on an archaic test. So now I'm shopping for a new testing center!
