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I hear there has been a new technical report issued by Harcourt Brace with a new norming sample for gifted(?). I believe it has something to do with a request from NAGC?
Something to do with children scoring at 18 or 19 on two or more subtest earning more points.

Does anyone(and by anyone I mean anyone but most especially Dottie?) know anything about this.

Will this affect children taking the test going forward or is my child's test re-scored?

Thanks,
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http://harcourtassessment.com/NR/rd...C-8E4A114F7E1F/0/WISCIV_TechReport_7.pdf

Here's the link.

Interesting. Our DS8 earned two 19s and two 18s on the subtests. I wonder how this would impact the interpretation of his test report, given that it was written 3-4 months ago.

Tara

Tara,

If you have the raw scores, you can recalculate his final score. But if you don't have the raw scores, you can't do it with just the 18 or 19 numbers. Perhaps you could ask your tester to send you the numbers or you could ask him/her to recalculate the final score based on this update.

Dottie,
Well my DS does have some 19's and we did have the raw scores,so I recalculated but his score didn't change at all.

Agree with Dottie about the reserved issue on Vocab. I had encouraged him to stay focused and not share everything he was thinking--only later did I find out that he could have gotten more "bonus points" if he had given more detailed answers. I just didn't want him to talk the tester's ear off!

Hey everybody!

DD8 had two 19's and one 18. I did shoot the tester an e-mail asking if this changed her score, but I figured I might get a quicker answer from you all on the board.
Based on what you are saying it doesn't seem it would change her score, but I was never given a GAI score for her, just FSIQ.
One of her topped out scores was in processing speed, the other two in the Perceptual Reasoning Index.
I will post if I find out if it changes her score.
This seems to be a good thing, though. I hope it clarifies things for those that are seemingly unmeasurable using that test.

Dottie, that seemed surprising to me as well. None of them obtained a FSIQ of 150 or higher? That's odd. Has anyone obtained a 160 on the WISC-IV? I've read recent postings of about 150-152, I believe. Interesting............

Incog

I kind of get what you are saying. So my question is, we all think of an extreme IQ score is anywhere above 155, or at least I do. Did anyone score there on the new WISC? If not, what is the new extreme score? is it 145?
Do I care?
Yes, because my DD8 FSIQ is 148 on WISC-IV and the school is going to say, "It's not like she has an IQ in the 150's or 160's or anything!"

Let's get a perspective on what the scores for this test mean, so the educational system doesn't underestimate these kids' needs based on the old SB's number scale.
And maybe someone has evidence that shows, yeah, those kids that were getting 170's on the SB are still getting 160 on WISC-IV, but I haven't seen it. On the contrary, the norming sample seems to indicate the number would come in lower.

Does that make sense?

Or am I borrowing trouble.

Incog

Dottie, our posts cross, I am going to PM you with that info.

Incog

So, did they score above 150, then?

Yes, but comparatively, what does that 150 score from WISC-IV mean? I know there's no perfect translation.
But what does it do to that 1 in 1000, 1 in 10,000 way of putting things in perspective with the numbers?
It can't be the same can it? Sounds like there are a lot less children that would score 160 on the WISC-IV as compared to previous tests.
Yes? No?

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