Kids who look like that make up a large majority of the kids in our local GT/accelerated classes b/c they have the high achievement (grades, NCLB test scores) to get in.
I was wondering just this--are these the kids who score high on achievement and not as high on IQ?
Yes, they are kids who have higher WMI and/or PSI (115-125ish), around 50th percentile scores on PRI and VCI, and who score in the 90s on achievement tests -- assuming that their parents are telling me that truth, that is. One of the moms of one such kid has told me that she thinks the IQ is off b/c her kiddo achieves so highly, but she's also tested IQ more than once and gotten pretty consistent results that look like that.
eta: I am, of course, hypothesizing that there are a lot more kids in the local accelerated programming who fall into this category. I doubt that many of them have taken IQ tests. My hypothesis is based upon a few things:
*I've had more than one GT coordinator tell me that she believes that most of the kids who are GT ided are high achievers, not gifted;
*Both of my kids' schools have between 16-25% of the kids in the GT classes and/or GT identified. Our neighborhood is truly not that skewed from the norm, so these classes have to be filled with someone other than gifted kids and I know that the kids in these classes are at least performing in the upper 10% on achievement tests or above, for the most part;
*DD12, who is a very bright kid and likely a 1 in 100 or so type, was so drastically different than the majority of these kids that she's needed a lot more acceleration than I'd think she would need if she were in class with other gifted kids (even if they were somewhat lower on IQ; the large majority of her age mates who are GT ided appear a lot lower in terms of IQ
-- yikes, I feel like a jerk for saying that!).
