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My eight year old son just got tested in Mexico with the WISC IV in Spanish. The psychologist who applied the test and made the assessment said that she and another fellow psychologist translated and adapted the test to spanish.
Here are his scores:

block design 15
similarities 19
digit span 19
picture concepts 14
coding 16
vocab 9
letter-numb. sequ. 15
matrix reseasoning 14
comprehension 19
symbol 13

He also had 5 subtests with scores as follows:
Incomplete figures 9
Registers 12
Information 19
Arithmetic 19
Incomplete words-clues 17

What I dont understand is the complete scores, I asked my psychologist and she said they were right.
Here they are:

Verbal Comprehension 83 (she added the test and the subtest scores in this composite, which I think was not ok.

Perceptual Reasoning 43

Working memory 34

Process speed 26

In calculating FSIQ

Verbal Comprehension = 155 in the 95% percentile with confidence interval of 116-129 That doesnt make sense to me, if its 155 should be in the 99th percentile, so I think this score is wrong but she said the program calculated it and it should be right.

Perceptual Reasoning 127 in the 96th percentile with a confidence interval of 117-132

Working memory 141 in the 99th percentile with a confidence interval of 130-145

And Process speed 126 in the 96th percentile with a confidence interval of 114-132

FISQ 140 in the 99th percentile with a confidence interval of 130-140

Shoul I trust this test scores?
What do you think.

Thanks for your help.
Eva

Thank you so much Dottie for your information.
I dont know if the 9 is a mistake or is the actual score but that�s the number they gave me.

But I dont understand, in the strengths and weakness analysis they said vocabulary is a Strength while picture concepts is a weakness. And for me that doesn�t relates with the scores

Let me show you:
block design 15 Strength
similarities 19 Weakness
digit span 19 Weakness
picture concepts 14 Weakness
coding 16 Strength
vocab 9 Strength
letter-numb. sequ. 15 Strength
matrix reseasoning 14 Strength
comprehension 19 Weakness
symbol 13 Weakness

I mean how should it be rigth to have 19 in comprehension and that be a weakness?

Sorry for so much information but I do really appreciate your kindly help with this.

The mean of the entire test was 153/10 = 15.3
They calculated the mean for VCI as 83/3 = 27.333 (weird right)?
And PRI mean as = 43/3 = 14.33

Weakness/strength analysis:
Scores less mean
(She said this are another scores but I don�t understand why they compare this scores to the mean obtained with another scores)

Block design 22 - 14.33 = 7.67 Strength

Similarities 17 - 27.66 = -10.67 Weakness

Digit span 15 - 15.3 = -0.30 Weakness

Picture concepts 5 - 14.33 = -9.33 Weakness

Coding 35 - 15.3 = 19.7 Strength

Vocab 29 - 27.66 = 1.33 Strength

Letter-numb. sequ. 16-15.3 = 0.7 Strength

Matrix reseasoning 15-14.33 = 0.67 Strength

Comprehension 20-27.66 = -7.67 Weakness

symbol 34-15.3 = 18.7 Strength

Do you think I use this results as a valid test to show the school? Should I have him retested?

Regards,
Eva

Thank you so much Dottie =)

Saddly I don�t think I can�t get a retype of the report because the psychologist said it was all right and that I was the first person ever to question it

So I don�t think I can show this assessment to the school

And I am not really sure if with all that mistakes the FSIQ is a reliable score although is a very good score =)

Again thank you so much for your help.

He is really gifted =)
I thought he was around the 150 to 160. I was surprised to see the 140 but I thought it was a nice score.

I didn�t know about the test and I wanted to know what all those numbers meant so I search everything I could about the WISC IV and then I found that a difference beyond 23 points between scores made the FSIQ noninterpretable.

And the difference between his 155 in the VCI and the 126 PSI was more than 23 points, that�s when I decided to verify the data.

With all the information you gave I feel more confident to send her a mail to tell her again about my doubts.

Thank you so much Dottie,

He is really gifted =)
I thought he was around the 150 to 160. I was surprised to see the 140 but I thought it was a nice score.

I didn�t know about the test and I wanted to know what all those numbers meant so I search everything I could about the WISC IV and then I found that a difference beyond 23 points between scores made the FSIQ noninterpretable.

And the difference between his 155 in the VCI and the 126 PSI was more than 23 points, that�s when I decided to verify the data.

With all the information you gave I feel more confident to send her a mail to tell her again about my doubts.

Thank you so much Dottie,

I saw the raw score for vocabulary, is 24. Do this relates to the 9 in the scaled score?

At school they know he is gifted, (it shows =) ), but I wanted a number to show them that he is profoundly gifted and he needed special accommodations. Although the number doesn�t mean profoundly gifted is a high score and maybe it would help.

I emailed the psychologist and tell her the mistakes I saw with her report (it was on Excel). And told her to send me again the report with the right numbers.

I hope she accepts the mistakes and send me the right report.

Should I be worried about the spread between similarities and vocabulary? Does it means a learning problem?

Thank you!

I forgot to add, that I don�t think he has a learning problem, he is very fluent when he speaks. He talks like an adult =)

Thank you Dottie!

The psychologist said that I cannot prove that her assessment of the test is wrong. So I cannot have a reprint.
It is very frustrating because with all that mistakes I cannot be sure that the score is right.

Anyone has the tables to convert scores? Or can I send the scores to someone who could help validating the scores?

I know, it�s crazy to ask, but perhaps someone knows where to find this information.

Thank you for your help.