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5 years old girl, Kindergarter. Just tested this morning, and got the IQ score and WJ-III Archievement score. I understand the IQ score, but, got lost on the complicated Score Report on Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Achievement. The final report will be sent us the day after tomorrow.

Here is the score.
Broad Reading: 157, >99.9% (AE: 8-3, Easy to DIFF 7-10 8-10, RPI: 100/90, PR: >99.9%

Broad Math: 165, >99.9%, (AE: 8-8, Easy to Diff: 7-5 9-4, RPI: 100/90, PR: >99.9%)

Math Cals Skills: 167, >99.9%

Letter-Word Identification: 159, >99.9%
Reading Fluency: 151, >99.9%
Calculation: 164, >99.9%
Math Fluency: 120, 91%
Passage Comprehension: 146, 99.9%
Applied Problems: 142, 99.7%.

And Her IQ score is:
150, >99.9%

Detailed IQ report will send to us the day after tomorrow.

Well, the simple answer is you need to start your Davidson Young Scholars application!

Seems pretty straightforward, she is functioning at an achievement level that is at the 99.9th percentile or above in all of the composite areas. "Math fluency", her one score that is not that the 99th percentile or above, is simply a measure of how quickly she can complete simple written calculations, so writing speed as well as knowledge can have an effect here.

And...fill out the DYS application.

What is unclear to you about the WJ-III?

The six items at the bottom are the subtests she was tested on. The three results in bold aggregate the subtests in different ways. IIRC broad reading is letter word id + reading fluency + passage comprehension. Broad math is the other three. And calc skills is math fluency + calculation. She blew the ceiling on most of them

Yes, the psychologist said she just talked too much during the speed test. Instead of finish them ASAP, she is very curious, asked various questions, "Why put these two sticks here?", "How about we change these two to...", "If we change these three numbers, it will be...", etc, etc.

So, it affected her speed. Just too curious, no sense she needs to be quick. Same thing happened in her IQ tests. She got all 99.9%, Performance: 150, > 99.9%, but, the only one slight below is Processing speed. Because too many curious questions.

I couldn't understand: AE: 8-3, Easy to DIFF 7-10 8-10, RPI: 100/90, PR: >99.9%.

What does that mean? 7yr old-10 yr old? 8 yrs old - 10 yrs old?
What does RPI 100/90 mean?

AE stands for "age equivalency" or something like that, so she performed on par with a typical 8yr 3month old child. I believe that the DIFF 7-10 8-10 means something about the range in which her score falls accounting for a margin of error. Her "true" score could be as low as that of a 7yr 10month old to as high as a 8yr 10month old child. I'm not sure on the RPI #.

Found this:

http://www.homeschoolertests.com/WJDefinitions.pdf

Very helpful!
Thanks! Austin!
I totally understand.