Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment Is anyone familiar with the WDRB?

Has anyone's child ever been given the Woodcock diagnostic reading battery? DD earned subtest standard scores ranging from 135-170 and an overall "reading aptitude" of 162. I can't remember whether the SD is 15 or 16. The population I usually test usually earns between 90-110 so SD hasn't come up much.

I'm tempted to be really impressed by these but I wondered if other GT kids easily earn such scores on it. i.e. are these more in the MG range because of the nature of the test.

And I blame my antics on the ACT company. This is how I wait out our missi g EXPLORE results. :-)

Thanks, Dottie!

Reading aptitude on my WDRB (1997 version, part of my dyslexia battery) includes sound blending, oral vocabulary, memory for sentences, and visual matching. I didn't report it correctly above. Her reading aptitude is *183* leading a predicted standard score of 162 in broad reading, basic reading, and reading comprehension. She didn't hit 162 in any of those composites (151, 152, and 143 respectively). A 19 point discrepancy in aptitude vs. comprehension would be an important finding in my regular dyslexia testing but in the upper reaches of scoring it's pretty meaningless.

DD's subtests:

letter-word ID: 155
word attack: 156
reading vocab: 135
passage comprehension: 138
incomplete words: 138
sound blending: 170
oral vocab: 160
listening comprehension: 144
memory for sentences: 161
visual matching: 141

She blew away all of the decoding and mimicking subtests but was afraid to "be wrong" on the challenging questions of subtests requiring application. Also, she truly didn't know some word meanings in the last few questions of those tests.

I guess what I am getting at... is it within the realm of possibility that I have a DYS kid? If EXPLORE is high enough, I'll use that as achievement testing. I am nervous about having an FSIQ done because I don't want to be disappointed, but my gut tells me that she needs more advocacy than an OLSAT and some SAT10 results can provide.

Thank you again, Dottie!!

I gave the test yesterday (also gave it over a year ago when I was brushing up on my testing skills - scores were similarly impressive at that time and reading comp was about 142). Her chronological age is 10-9.

I used the 1997 version. There is a more recent 2004 version of WDRB.

Would you need the raw scores as W values or as number of correct responses?

Wow, this is really helpful!!

Letter-word: 55/57
Word attack: 30/30
Reading vocab:
synonyms 24/34
antonyms 20/35
Passage comp: 35/42
Incomplete words: 34/40
Sound blending: 33/33
Oral vocab:
synonyms 14/20
antonyms 20/34
Listening comp: 32/38
Memory for sentences: 57 points
Visual matching: 53 pairs