I failed him . . . clearly I did! It is all my fault!
I have previously mentioned we were going to have Jake re-tested. We want to figure out if his testing results were a fluke or a trend.
We feel it was important for us to know - we would hate to set him up to fail by placing him in a very rigorous school, or cut him short - based on one test that we are not so sure was an accurate picture of his intelligence.
Therefore . . . last Saturday, while Goo, Mimi, Scoots and I were at the St. Patty's Day Parade, Jake was being retested.
The tester did a series of test. She used the Stanford Binet IQ test, a Kindergarten readiness test and a visual/vocabulary test.
Previously he was tested on the WPSII-3 IQ test. You might wonder why didn't he take this test again. Ethically, he can't. There is an assumed learning, called a halo effect, about the test once someone takes it. I am not sure how accurate this is since the test administrator doesn't tell the kids if they get it right or wrong - she just marks her paper accordingly. BUT . . . for this to be a fair process - we had a different IQ test performed. This IQ test is still being used by the top private girls school for Jake's age, among a few others. It is still widely used across the US, just not by the CATS Texas testing organization, the same organization that tested Jake the first go around.
