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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Prepping" for the WISC is NOT unethical.  It is NOT cheating.  These tests are supposed to measure some kind of innate ability or IQ.  Guess what---if they truly did that, prepping would make no difference.  Clinical psychologists (my sister is one) administer these tests for a fee (around here $285), the test is changed periodically (hence WISC -3, -4, -5), perhaps to make it better and perhaps to keep people from being able to "prep" and keeping the psychologists' assessments valuable.  I question why the test has to be administered by a PhD psychologist with a hefty fee, as opposed to a scan-tron once kids are old enough to bubble and read (grade one).

Measures of IQ for young children are highly variable and therefore pretty useless measures.  They change based on the child's motivation, interaction with clinician, mood etc.  IQ measures tend to become more stable in later childhood.  (Whether they are a useful metric is another discussion)  However, I strongly feel that prepping is not unethical.  I would be interested to know why you think it is so unethical. [/quote]

Wow - there are so many inaccurate statements and lack of understanding of testing and assessment in this post I don't know where to begin. And this ladies and gentlemen is exactly why IQ tests are administered by someone with the education and training to understand standardization and interpretation...[/quote]

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