WPPSI in LOW 90's???

[Anonymous]

22:50 - Sorry, I was not clear. I don't mean all 99+ kids have sensory or learning challenges, but taking the WPPSI @ 3, 4, or 5 may surface issues that may not be apparent until 1st or 2nd grade where teachers start to see a convergence in reading abilities ("late" readers catch up with "early" ones). À child may have a gap in verbal + performance scores or wide ranges in the subtests. Subsequent testing @ ages 3-5 may identify areas requiring attention which may not get noticed till 7 onwards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:22:50 - Sorry, I was not clear. I don't mean all 99+ kids have sensory or learning challenges, but taking the WPPSI @ 3, 4, or 5 may surface issues that may not be apparent until 1st or 2nd grade where teachers start to see a convergence in reading abilities ("late" readers catch up with "early" ones). À child may have a gap in verbal + performance scores or wide ranges in the subtests. Subsequent testing @ ages 3-5 may identify areas requiring attention which may not get noticed till 7 onwards.

Children can also have hidden or undiagnosed disabilities like ADD or asperger's or LD's. Yes they can escape diagnosis when having an autism spectrum condition. Some things might not be diagnosed until middle or high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:kids in this area who are applying to private schools are going to perform better than that randomly selected national sample. So a kid at the 99th percentile nationally might only be at the 90th percentile compared to other applicants.

My gut says you're right that kids in metropolitan areas like DC (or NY, Boston, Chi, Phila, Miami, Houston, StL, SF, LA, Seattle, etc) are going to score better on WPPSI than kids in other regions, but I've never seen any actual evidence to back this up. Have you? If anyone knows of any articles or studies that compare WPPSI results between cities, could you please link them? This info might be hard to find though because I doubt private testing consultants report WPPSI scores to anyone. However, maybe one way to compare regions is to compare scores on ERB or other widely-administered tests. Does anyone from the DCUM data/statistics team have any good ideas/info on these points?

By the way, OP, I think 92% is a fine score, and your kid will do great. Don't stress.

You should look at some of the other threads that discuss National Merit awards. Some of these awards are given to the kids that score above 99th percentile on the PSAT (which probably make them 99+ on a IQ test which is normed to a broader population) in the state where the test is taken. If you look at the raw score that gets you an award in DC, it is the highest, or second highest, in the country, meaning that kids have to have a higher score on the PSAT to be in the top 1% in DC than they would have in other parts of the country. That's another way of saying that there are many more 99th percentile kids (by national norms) here than you would expect.

To the poster who said that the early 99th percentile kids fade, is that speculation based on your observations or is that from data? I am sure that there is quite a bit of regression to the mean, but just from observing the kids in my DCs school, the kids who impressed at K or 1 are for the most part still at the top of the class in 8th grade. In fact there is a bunch of research that upper middle class who score well early also test well years later, and poor kids who score badly early tend to score badly years later. The big switchers are the better off kids who score badly early, who tend to improve over time, and, unfortunately, poor kids who score well early, who tend to deteriorate over time on average.

[Anonymous]

Not pp, but our tester told me that the scores of kids who score in the 99th percentile (or the high 90s) at age four tend to spread out when they are tested at age 7, although they remain relatively high. Scores are more stable thereafter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm sort of shocked- my DS is in 92%. After reading about all these 99's, I assumed he would be a 99, so I'm really dissappointed with the 92. I've never met a kid smarter, quicker, more verbal, etc than he is. Of course, I'm the parent, so I guess I'm supposed to feel that way. Still, who are these 99% kids?

My child is one of the 99% and is "normal" and is doing great at his current school. We would have been more surprised by such a high score if I hadn't read it on here so much. We never prepped him in any way. I wouldn't even know how. A 92% is GREAT! Don't worry about it! That means in the entire country of all the children taking the test only 8% of the children scored higher than yours! Pretty amazing when you think about it. They look at so much more than scores. I have a friend whose child took the test with a cold (which they were unaware of) he didn't scored in the 70's on verbal and they couldn't believe it because he is the most eloquent little child ever. The next year he retook the test and scored in the high 90's. Good luck!