WISC-V

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Dr. Dawna Thompson

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Anonymous wrote:Dr. Dawna Thompson

Thank you!

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Anonymous wrote:I really don’t want to malign the professionals and graduate students who give the WISC test for aap admissions (or private school for that matter). I believe most are on the up and up. I *have* noticed in my experience that kids get higher scores when parents are paying to try to discover giftedness. I know of quite a few examples of private evaluations coming up higher than evaluations done and paid for by the school—administered on the same child. But I believe that could be explained by a few things. There’s an unconscious bias when you are being paid by someone to get a high score. Private psychologists know they are looking for giftedness and will look harder than a psych working for a school and looking for an LD. A private psych may be able to have the time to develop a better rapport with the child. A private psych may be more experience in twice exceptional kids. GMU is no better or worse than a private psych on this regard. But I do believe FCPS is less wary of those results.

There is a lot of subjectiveness to the test.

I'm a special Ed teacher and see the same thing when parents are looking for an IEP for their kid. It's very clear when parents are paying for a diagnosis.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really don’t want to malign the professionals and graduate students who give the WISC test for aap admissions (or private school for that matter). I believe most are on the up and up. I *have* noticed in my experience that kids get higher scores when parents are paying to try to discover giftedness. I know of quite a few examples of private evaluations coming up higher than evaluations done and paid for by the school—administered on the same child. But I believe that could be explained by a few things. There’s an unconscious bias when you are being paid by someone to get a high score. Private psychologists know they are looking for giftedness and will look harder than a psych working for a school and looking for an LD. A private psych may be able to have the time to develop a better rapport with the child. A private psych may be more experience in twice exceptional kids. GMU is no better or worse than a private psych on this regard. But I do believe FCPS is less wary of those results.

There is a lot of subjectiveness to the test.

I'm a special Ed teacher and see the same thing when parents are looking for an IEP for their kid. It's very clear when parents are paying for a diagnosis.

But payment is upfront so who cares. Dr. can decide what they decide. The Dr. already has the $$$

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really don’t want to malign the professionals and graduate students who give the WISC test for aap admissions (or private school for that matter). I believe most are on the up and up. I *have* noticed in my experience that kids get higher scores when parents are paying to try to discover giftedness. I know of quite a few examples of private evaluations coming up higher than evaluations done and paid for by the school—administered on the same child. But I believe that could be explained by a few things. There’s an unconscious bias when you are being paid by someone to get a high score. Private psychologists know they are looking for giftedness and will look harder than a psych working for a school and looking for an LD. A private psych may be able to have the time to develop a better rapport with the child. A private psych may be more experience in twice exceptional kids. GMU is no better or worse than a private psych on this regard. But I do believe FCPS is less wary of those results.

There is a lot of subjectiveness to the test.

I'm a special Ed teacher and see the same thing when parents are looking for an IEP for their kid. It's very clear when parents are paying for a diagnosis.

This has not been my experience at local screening committee meetings. I’ve brought two reports for different kids done by different psychologists to two different FCPS schools and they’ve all taken the reports very seriously. So did my pediatrician who I showed them, too, for that matter.
These people saying otherwise I believe have some kind of chip on their shoulder.

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I think having an inexperienced grad student learn on my child is just as bad as having an unethical psychologist perform it. I got good recommendations, found a private (and experienced psychologist), and the results spoke for themselves.