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[quote=Anonymous]I would be tempted to give him a paper placement test to validate that the computer tests are inaccurate. I think you are probably right, that it's something particular about computer testing that causes problems, but I've seen enough bullfeathers from schools claiming that everything was OK with a child who, as it turned out, wasn't OK, that I do not entirely trust them in that regards.

ITBS would be the gold standard, but quick and dirty tests might be enough to tell you if there's an issue -- various math curricula have placement tests.

Here, for example are placement tests for  Rod & Staff's math and English curricula:

https://www.milestonebooks.com/bin/Placement_Test_Math.pdf

https://www.milestonebooks.com/bin/Placement_Test_English.pdf

R&S is roughly on grade level for math but IMHO their English curriculum is very hard core so I would not regard poor performance there as definitive for someone coming from the outside. Note that you can alter the math test to ask the questions open ended if you're concerned that weaknesses might be hidden by multiple choice.

Alternate placement tests: Math Mammoth's (generally on grade level)

https://www.mathmammoth.com/complete/placement_tests

Singapore Math (slightly advanced)

https://www.singaporemath.com/pages/placement-tests

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