What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
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Anonymous
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I grew up in Montgomery County, MD. Just curious which one it was.
I wonder if I’d score highly now in middle age or not. I’m not particularly successful in terms of how I turned out, although I’m a capable employed adult. |
Anonymous
| Otis Lennon? |
Anonymous
Wikipedia says it is administered in groups. I distinctly remember being in a room alone being tested with puzzles and reciting number sequences backwards. |
Anonymous
That's the WISC (not sure what version in the 80's). You can take the WAIS-IV as an adult, but it's pricey. |
Anonymous
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wechsler_Intelligence_Scale_for_Children#Test_format The puzzles are for the Visual Spatial Index and the number sequences assess Working Memory. |
Anonymous
| I’m 42 and I took the wisc in elementary school. |
Anonymous
| Wisc |
Anonymous
Oh I took that one too! It was fun. |
Anonymous
Same in 87/88 for me. I was definitely not with a group. |
Anonymous
Same for me in 91/92. |
Anonymous
Supposedly I took this one, but I have no memory of it. My mother told us she wouldn't ever tell us our IQ when we were kids. Now that we're adults, I asked her and she doesn't remember anymore. So I'll never know. |
Anonymous
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As a kid I remember taking the Iowa Assessment in the mid-late 80s, which is not an IQ test, but more like the academic standards assessments my kids do in APS.
In college in the late 90s I took a psych seminar about IQ testing and we used Ravens Advances Matrices. |
Anonymous
| Ctbs |
Anonymous
| I was in MCPS in mid-80s and took it and did get into the gifted program. It was the WISC-R. I also used it to join Mensa. |
Anonymous
| Wisc as well |