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Which achievement test #71142 03/12/10 06:46 AM
Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 393 Catalana OP Member
OP Catalana Member Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 393	Any important differences I should take into account as we move forward with the AT that are similar to the differences between S-B V and WISC IV, or is the nature of achievement tests such that it doesn't really make a difference whether we use W-J or KTEA (are there any other regularly used ones?) Since now I am second guessing my decision to use WISC instead of SB for the IQ testing, I felt I'd better start obsessing about something new Thanks, Cat

Re: Which achievement test Catalana #71150 03/12/10 07:22 AM
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Mam Member M Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 347	WIAT is also very widely used. I know very little about AT, but I do know that WJ has timed components for every area (fluency). My dd is not particularly fast with her arithmetic, so I found it extremely useful to have an objective measure of that. (While fluency in math was her lowest score, it was still ahead of grade level. Little things like that were the useful bits we got from AT.

Re: Which achievement test #71205 03/12/10 12:51 PM
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kickball Member K Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 258	I'm a WJ fan. And I wouldn't stress the WISC/SB unless you have a mathcraziedboy which an S-B might illuminate a little better - but really...

Re: Which achievement test kickball #71257 03/12/10 06:37 PM
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OP Catalana Member Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 393	Thanks for the insights - it doesn't seem to be too big of a difference. kcab, which book are you thinking about? And yes, he is a mathcraziedboy! And I am not really stressing, we had some minor concern re: LDs and felt the WISC would give richer information via the subtests. And I think we got that information, so it prob. was the right choice. Cat

Re: Which achievement test #71312 03/13/10 07:18 AM
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OP Catalana Member Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 393	Originally Posted by kcab I was thinking of Gilman's Academic Advocacy book and Assouline & Lupkowski-Shoplik's Developing Math Talent. The Developing Math Talent book indicates that WJ isn't detailed enough to plan math programming, but it at least mentions the WJ (WIAT not mentioned even). Academic Advocacy uses WJ in most examples, I think. If you know of any with WIAT examples, please let me know! I'm wishing I knew what to suggest/insist. Here's the links I mentioned before: WIAT (II? III?) to WJ III numerical ops and WIAT vs WJ III math reasoning comparison I have Developing Math Talent and a similiar frustration - they use Explore results but not SCAT results - it isn't that I can't extrapolate some, but showing it to the school and trying to explain why they should use the recommendations when the numbers are not right there in front of them is an entirely different thing. Looks like we will go with WJ anyway, as a friend who is a psychologist locally says she thinks it is probably more widely known/accepted. Cat Last edited by Catalana; 03/13/10 07:19 AM.

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