Wow, that's a lot to read & think about! Thanks, everyone.
We beta tested Ruf's online assessment, but I'd already known that DD had crazy early milestones, so it didn't help much. I had not considered the SB. Silly me. I'll look into it. You'd definitely recommend it above the WJ, though?
The problem that I'm really trying to solve is wrt math. In every other area, I think I've got her more or less figured out. She's interested, she's at least a bit ahead (and very, very ahead in some areas), and I'm not concerned. We unschool, and plan to continue unless/until there's an issue with that, and so far that's been great (again, in every area other than math).
Math is the thing that really gets me because she has had very early milestones for counting, counting backwards, skip counting, adding, and subtracting, but she honestly doesn't seem far ahead now of where she was at 3. I feel like I must be either under- or overestimating her math abilities, and providing her with the wrong sorts of materials, and she must be getting frustrated about it. I say that because she has regular interest that just sort of peters out without much progress. If she just seemed uninterested, I wouldn't worry about it.
While I could do (and have done) curriculum-based math assessment tests to try to figure out where she's at, I get frustrated because she gives wrong answers to very easy questions, and she gets frustrated because she hasn't been exposed to a lot of the vocabulary and also because I get frustrated. I have some hope, however slight, that a good tester who isn't her mother might have better luck with her. Maybe that means that achievement might be more valuable than IQ testing, but then again maybe both would give me the most value. I'm not sure if that would change the price.
Oh, and Grinity, I am sick for a variety of reasons, some of which will get better, and some of which will not. One of the reasons is that I'm expecting DD2 in July (which will probably end up making me more, rather than less, overwhelmed).
