[Oz-gifted] tests in the public & private system

[Alison Miller]

I tested 100s of kindies-year 6  over the last 6 years and believe me the 5
yr old special ed'ers didn't equal bright 4yr old.
alison
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From: "Rose Churches" <rosechurches at hotmail.com>
To: <keith.mcguinness at bigpond.com>; <oz-gifted at rite.ed.qut.edu.au>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Oz-gifted] tests in the public & private system


> Hi all, I asked my friend the psych and this was her reply:
> The reliability is low because the difference between a slow 4 year old
and
> a bright functioning 4 year old is only small, so the reliability is low.
> As they get older, the expectations are higher and the gap between low and
> high-functioning is larger and more obvious.  Hope that helps!
>
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> Rosemary Churches
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> 0418855388
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> >From: Keith McGuinness <keith.mcguinness at bigpond.com>
> >Reply-To: keith.mcguinness at bigpond.com, oz-gifted at rite.ed.qut.edu.au
> >To: oz-gifted at rite.ed.qut.edu.au
> >Subject: Re: [Oz-gifted] tests in the public & private system
> >Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:42:18 +0930
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> >sol1 wrote:
> > > Heavens above Narelle, tell them to go and do some research! the
> >WISC,WPPSI
> > > and SB tests aren't standardised? aren't reliable?  they have no idea
> >what
> > > they are talking about
> >
> >Concur! Extraordinary remarks!
> >
> >Keith McGuinness
> >
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