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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I think it's stressful for many kids to encounter a testing situation where they are deliberately being asked questions about stuff they haven't been taught yet.[/b]  I get the premise but for the kids it is confusing and they don't like it.  Especially kids who are used to doing well on tests and pay attention and prepare just so they will do well.

Hopefully parents can somehow explain the concept to their kids in such a way that the kids don't feel stressed when they get to the questions they have no way of knowing the answers to.[/quote]

It sounds stressful to me and I wouldn't like it - but my kids don't care.  It doesn't bother them.  [/quote]

They only get the more advanced questions if they answer easier questions correctly.  It's trying to find their ceiling.  What is stressful is if they are quite advanced but also prone to making dumb mistakes it can make the test last a very long time.  My ADHD kid who is advanced in math and tends to hyperfocus was told she could keep taking the test until it ended or leave with the rest of their group.  She liked doing the test better than the alternative and I guess it went on for several hours because she would make dumb mistakes on a few easy questions and then have to build all the way up to advanced again.  The teacher laughed about it with us in the conference that my kid held the record by far for the most questions that she had ever seen.  (They had a set up where they went for their iready tests in small groups and she just lasted through all the waves).  [/quote]

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