What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Otis Lennon?

Wikipedia says it is administered in groups. I distinctly remember being in a room alone being tested with puzzles and reciting number sequences backwards.

I had completely forgotten about this until just now. I also took this type of test in the early 90s. In my case they believed I was twice exceptional and I distinctly remember taking the test in a tiny room with a double mirror, only they didn’t tell me it was a double mirror, but I distinctly remember feeling like I was being watched from that side of the room.

Anyone else take it with a double mirror?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Otis Lennon?

Wikipedia says it is administered in groups. I distinctly remember being in a room alone being tested with puzzles and reciting number sequences backwards.

I had completely forgotten about this until just now. I also took this type of test in the early 90s. In my case they believed I was twice exceptional and I distinctly remember taking the test in a tiny room with a double mirror, only they didn’t tell me it was a double mirror, but I distinctly remember feeling like I was being watched from that side of the room.

Anyone else take it with a double mirror?

Would “they” really have time to sit and watch each individual student take a test?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ctbs

Yes, I think this is what I took in New York State in the 80s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I remember a taking tests in elementary and middle school in NY (Long Island) that involved pattern completion, spatial rearranging figures and remembering word definitions after a delay. I still remember how they read the words and some of the examples: wuzzle is to mix. Remember wuzzle is to mix; a yonker is a young man. Remember yonker is a young man; baloo is a bear. Remember Baloo is a bear. Everyone in the school took it. Don’t remember if it was every year but definitely did it multiple grades.

I took this same test! And I remember those same questions exactly, like burned into my brain! Was the mid 80s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I remember a taking tests in elementary and middle school in NY (Long Island) that involved pattern completion, spatial rearranging figures and remembering word definitions after a delay. I still remember how they read the words and some of the examples: wuzzle is to mix. Remember wuzzle is to mix; a yonker is a young man. Remember yonker is a young man; baloo is a bear. Remember Baloo is a bear. Everyone in the school took it. Don’t remember if it was every year but definitely did it multiple grades.

I took this same test! And I remember those same questions exactly, like burned into my brain! Was the mid 80s.

They recently took that out of the test. And it’s not an IQ test it’s to test that the students are achieving. They are meeting the standards that the state put forward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Otis Lennon?

Wikipedia says it is administered in groups. I distinctly remember being in a room alone being tested with puzzles and reciting number sequences backwards.

Oh I took that one too! It was fun.

I remember taking a test like this too. I would have been 5 years old I guess ('82). I tested high enough to enter 2nd grade. I ended up just skipping kindergarten and went straight to first grade though. My parents didn't want me to be too much younger than the other kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Stanford-Binet. There’s a wiki on it

I’m pretty sure that’s what I took in the late 70s.

Me, too. Mid-late 70s.

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The same test, the WISC, has been used since the 70's. It is hopelessly outdated.

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Does anyone remember a page of small empty boxes where you had to draw a picture inside each box? I literally remember nothing else from this test. I thought I was so smart because I linked a bunch of the boxes into a caterpillar (which is ofc more lazy than clever). Would have been 1983 or so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Otis Lennon?

Wikipedia says it is administered in groups. I distinctly remember being in a room alone being tested with puzzles and reciting number sequences backwards.

I had completely forgotten about this until just now. I also took this type of test in the early 90s. In my case they believed I was twice exceptional and I distinctly remember taking the test in a tiny room with a double mirror, only they didn’t tell me it was a double mirror, but I distinctly remember feeling like I was being watched from that side of the room.

Anyone else take it with a double mirror?

Would “they” really have time to sit and watch each individual student take a test?

I’m not sure what you’re implying. My parents took me, alone, to some building in our school district, to take the test. We met, alone, first with a man who spoke to my parents while I read magazines in a waiting area, then “they” (the man) moved me to the little room with the mirrored/glass wall to take the test.

[Anonymous]

I took the WISC in the early 90s. It was administered in a tiny closet of a room off the admin office of my school and I was pissy because I was claustrophobic. My mom dug up the report for me to read as an adult and the summary was essentially that I was a little snot but qualified for gifted services.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Otis Lennon?

Wikipedia says it is administered in groups. I distinctly remember being in a room alone being tested with puzzles and reciting number sequences backwards.

I had completely forgotten about this until just now. I also took this type of test in the early 90s. In my case they believed I was twice exceptional and I distinctly remember taking the test in a tiny room with a double mirror, only they didn’t tell me it was a double mirror, but I distinctly remember feeling like I was being watched from that side of the room.

Anyone else take it with a double mirror?

Would “they” really have time to sit and watch each individual student take a test?

I’m not sure what you’re implying. My parents took me, alone, to some building in our school district, to take the test. We met, alone, first with a man who spoke to my parents while I read magazines in a waiting area, then “they” (the man) moved me to the little room with the mirrored/glass wall to take the test.

Sounds sketchy.

[Anonymous]

I know my son’s IQ results and psychological test results because he has a learning disability. There are two scores, one is a verbal IQ and one is a nonverbal IQ. A significant gap between the two indicates a learning disability even if both scores are high.

Interesting that the states with the highest average IQs in students statewide are the ones without state mandates for gifted programs. Massachusetts being on top as they usually are followed by the rest of New England except CT. Minnesota and some other northern states are the same.

I would think if a child is gifted, meaning IQ over 140, they would have a lot of options better than public schools. Everyone would want them in their school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Otis Lennon?

Wikipedia says it is administered in groups. I distinctly remember being in a room alone being tested with puzzles and reciting number sequences backwards.

I had completely forgotten about this until just now. I also took this type of test in the early 90s. In my case they believed I was twice exceptional and I distinctly remember taking the test in a tiny room with a double mirror, only they didn’t tell me it was a double mirror, but I distinctly remember feeling like I was being watched from that side of the room.

Anyone else take it with a double mirror?

I know I did, because my mom says she watched the test. That seems weird to me now, but hey, it was the 70s. I think it was the Stanford-Binet, but I can’t be sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Otis Lennon?

Wikipedia says it is administered in groups. I distinctly remember being in a room alone being tested with puzzles and reciting number sequences backwards.

I had completely forgotten about this until just now. I also took this type of test in the early 90s. In my case they believed I was twice exceptional and I distinctly remember taking the test in a tiny room with a double mirror, only they didn’t tell me it was a double mirror, but I distinctly remember feeling like I was being watched from that side of the room.

Anyone else take it with a double mirror?

Would “they” really have time to sit and watch each individual student take a test?

I’m not sure what you’re implying. My parents took me, alone, to some building in our school district, to take the test. We met, alone, first with a man who spoke to my parents while I read magazines in a waiting area, then “they” (the man) moved me to the little room with the mirrored/glass wall to take the test.

Sounds sketchy.

Nope, sounds like this school—like my central NJ public school district in the 80s—had a psychologist psychometrician on staff.

This is how I did it as well, PP.