I just heard from the tester, and the scores are:
We're a little surprised because we always thought of N as a intuitively mathy kid who HATES to write.
Don't get crazy with the relative scores - the socres are only relative rareness in relation to other kids of his age - not relative to each other, SWIM?
So if you think he's an intuitively mathy kid who hates to write, he probably is - but it's that other kids his age probably hate to write even more!
I have no info about how the test relates to grade level - most achievement tests are terrible about this, but sometimes schools don't realize this and will use them. It's more logical to use whatever test they use for evaluating reading and see how far up your child goes until the child isn't not average - rather has a good bit of company at the top.
If you have a list of books that your child enjoys reading at home, you can google the book's title and 'Lexile' or whatever system your particular school uses to rate book levels, to see what grade level your child is reading at. Then one has to look at the actual children at the local school and see what grade-level books they are reading, as it could be much lower or much higher than 'grade-level' - and if that makes any sense at all, you have my sympathies!
((wink))
Grinity
