[Oz-gifted] Needing your opinions

[sol1]

Hi Michelle,

A couple of questions :-)

Who is testing her? What is their explanation for this?

What tests are being used? Is she being tested to guage her aptitude in 
something other than what the achievement tests are testing?

cheers
Fin


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michelle Gabriel" <mbgabs at ozemail.com.au>
To: <oz-gifted at cobia.ed.qut.edu.au>
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Oz-gifted] Needing your opinions


> 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
>
>
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