So we went ahead and did the WPPSI yesterday, and I don't know how useful the results will be...the only score I remember was FSIQ 123--the others were around 115-120ish. But the tester said that dd would frequently say stuff like, "No, you tell me!" or "you show me!" (she can be very silly and I can totally picture her doing this even when she did know the answer, she does it at home with puzzles etc. that she can complete by herself) and then at the end she asked what the candy in the jar was for--tester said it was "for kids who tried their hardest. Did you try your hardest?" dd said no. Tester said there were times she was very surprised by the stuff dd did know the answer to.
So...I think it would be highly likely that if she had cooperated fully the scores would be higher, but prob. she would turn out to be sort of MG rather than higher. I am in a classroom with kids who are identified as gifted frequently, and I just don't see how this kid could *not* be. But maybe she is the McGyver type, as Grinity called it in another post.
In the short term it won't make a difference because I think that for now and next year her multi-age class is a good fit. It would be nice to have her officially qualify for gifted programs to give us more options in the future (I really don't care about the label except if it were to help get her an appropriate level of challenge).
I just can't imagine what it is like for the kids who are in the 99.9%, because I know that I am not and my kids are not, and I still don't think that a typical ps classroom is the right fit.
I hope that when the full report comes back those of you with wisdom to share can help me out and I can still hang out here!
Thanks!
p.s. I think I have learned my lesson, and in the future will be spending the $ to get a tester experienced with gifted kids though!
