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<blockquote data-quote="buddy" data-source="post: 506315" data-attributes="member: 12886"><p><a href="http://www.hishelpinschool.com/testing/test4.html" target="_blank">TESTING TERMS</a></p><p></p><p>68 percent of standard scores fall between 85-115 (+/- 1 Standard Deviation from the average of 100) Most scores are not considered concerning unless below 1.5 SD or 2 SD from the mean... BUT a significant difference between full scale scores and a subtest or from performance scores versus verbal scores can show learning challenges.... or suggest/lend support to some diagnosis.</p><p></p><p></p><p>you have to ask a psychiatric or other wisc trained person but I would think that his relatively lower subtest score (which is still with-in a very good range) could reflect an anxiety to timed/pressured testing, could reflect an issue with short term memory for those kinds of tasks (saying numbers backward.. I am terrible with that stuff) etc. I would not be too worried unless someone tells you that it is really an Learning Disability (LD)....supported by other testing.... but for now it can mean that a STYLE of learning for him that would be challenging would be things that require those kinds of tasks. </p><p></p><p>I am so not a huge fan of IQ testing in general but to show that he falls in a normal IQ range is a nice relief.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="buddy, post: 506315, member: 12886"] [URL="http://www.hishelpinschool.com/testing/test4.html"]TESTING TERMS[/URL] 68 percent of standard scores fall between 85-115 (+/- 1 Standard Deviation from the average of 100) Most scores are not considered concerning unless below 1.5 SD or 2 SD from the mean... BUT a significant difference between full scale scores and a subtest or from performance scores versus verbal scores can show learning challenges.... or suggest/lend support to some diagnosis. you have to ask a psychiatric or other wisc trained person but I would think that his relatively lower subtest score (which is still with-in a very good range) could reflect an anxiety to timed/pressured testing, could reflect an issue with short term memory for those kinds of tasks (saying numbers backward.. I am terrible with that stuff) etc. I would not be too worried unless someone tells you that it is really an Learning Disability (LD)....supported by other testing.... but for now it can mean that a STYLE of learning for him that would be challenging would be things that require those kinds of tasks. I am so not a huge fan of IQ testing in general but to show that he falls in a normal IQ range is a nice relief. [/QUOTE]
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