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[quote=Anonymous]I disagree with the above PP who said that, " a child who works slowly, but diligently and gets all correct will still get a very high score" . This is not true with the coding subset of the processing speed portion of the WISC IV. A child who is a perfectionist, as many gifted are, and who works carefully, thoughtfully and deliberatively will get a relatively "low" score compared with their other subtests that test their knowledge and reasoning ability with less emphasis on speed.   While it is true that consecutive wrong answers stop the testee and fix the score, a child given to perfectionism ( as many gifted children are) may choose to work slowly and carefully, may choose to go back and change an answer if in later prompts they recognize a pattern that their working memory( also high) tells them that they coded wrong ten answers ago so they go back and change the answer....doubly so if they are a young child with developing fine motor and growing testing experience, such that they do not realize that correcting a wrong answer by going over it over and over again with a pencil, though effective in correcting, takes significant time and slows them down. Coding is a timed test and the gifted child who is a perfectionist often takes MORE time, not less on this test , and the results then confound there overall IQ score. Note the research on this below:

http://www.gifteddevelopment.com/PDF_files/NewWISC.pdf

For this reason, organizations that work with the gifted , use the GAI as an indicator of giftedness. ( the calculation of GAI is outlined in the above ref'd research paper)[/quote]

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