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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid's scores in WISC-IV are as follows.
FSIQ 130 --- 
VCI 116
PRI 121
WMI 138
PSI 121

What does this mean? Is FSIQ of 130 not really indicating that my kid is gifted. Please expain as I am new to this test. He scored highest in WMI.[/quote]

In my mind, that's still gifted, otherwise why are the other scores included in the full scale IQ? People do seem to think that VCI and PRI are more important. I'd post on the Davidson forum if I were you, lots of people on there have experience with WISC scores.[/quote]

dated, but this shares that FCI and PRI should be weighted more strongly. I don't know how FCPS interprets WMI and processing speed.

Summary: The studies conducted to date on the WISC-IV suggest that two of the four indices, the Verbal Comprehension Index and the Perceptual Reasoning Index, provide the bestmeasures of giftedness. Therefore, it seems prudent to administer only 6 subtests of the WISC-IV for selection to gifted programs: Vocabulary, Similarities, Comprehension, Matrix Reasoning, Picture Concepts and Block Design. The General Ability Index (GAI) can be derived from these six subtests, and is recommended by both the test publisher and the new Essentials of WISC-IV Assessment by Flanagan and Kaufman (2004). They advise using the GAI, instead of the Full Scale IQ, if the 4 composite scores vary by 23 or more points, and if the Verbal Comprehension Index and the Perceptual Reasoning Index vary by less than 23 points. Dumont and Willis also advise that their DWI-1 and DWI-2 should only be calculated if the scores that go into them are relatively close. This shortform of the WISC-IV will be less expensive to administer, less time consuming, moreefficient and will yield more accurate estimates of the abilities of gifted students, without the confounding variables of Working Memory and Processing Speed.

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