[Oz-gifted] Needing your opinions

[Michelle Gabriel]

Hi everyone,
Now some of you know the story of B my eldest daughter who is now in
Year 9 and is 13 years old.

There are a couple of questions I am trying to get the answer too.

What is the difference between IQ tests, Aptitude tests and Achievement
Tests?

Over the years B has done many of these and for some reason in the last
6 years if she does Aptitude Tests and Achievement Tests, she comes in
as Average or even below average on the subsets of the Aptitude Tests
but between 95 percentile and 99.5 percentile on the subsets of
Achievement Tests.  

Now this is not suppose to happen, if anything it is suppose to be the
other way around, showing a child has aptitude but is underachieving.  B
is over achieving if you take into consideration her aptitude scores to
her achievement scores.  It just doesn't make sense.

The school she is at now have let her be accelerated in Music and are
considering acceleration in Art, English and may be Maths.  The normal
procedure is to do aptitude tests and achievement tests.  And guess
what, B has excelled herself once again and has again come in average on
the aptitude tests and 99 percentile on the achievement tests.  

My question is does anyone have any idea why this would be the case.
This time they didn't even time her on either of the tests, but it still
happened.  It probably is not going to make much difference to the
outcome, but I'd just love to know if anyone has any ideas why this may
occur?

We know B is visual spatial, ADHD, ASD and Gifted.  So any ideas would
be greatly appreciated, even if they are just ideas not "fact".

Cheers


Michelle G