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[quote=Anonymous]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.  [/quote]

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