Anonymous
Post 02/15/2023 13:34     Subject: What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
Wisc as well
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2023 12:50     Subject: Re:What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
I was in MCPS in mid-80s and took it and did get into the gifted program. It was the WISC-R. I also used it to join Mensa.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2023 12:49     Subject: What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
Ctbs
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2023 12:48     Subject: What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
As a kid I remember taking the Iowa Assessment in the mid-late 80s, which is not an IQ test, but more like the academic standards assessments my kids do in APS.

In college in the late 90s I took a psych seminar about IQ testing and we used Ravens Advances Matrices.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2023 12:44     Subject: Re:What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Otis Lennon?


Wikipedia says it is administered in groups. I distinctly remember being in a room alone being tested with puzzles and reciting number sequences backwards.


Supposedly I took this one, but I have no memory of it. My mother told us she wouldn't ever tell us our IQ when we were kids. Now that we're adults, I asked her and she doesn't remember anymore. So I'll never know.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2023 12:43     Subject: Re:What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Otis Lennon?


Wikipedia says it is administered in groups. I distinctly remember being in a room alone being tested with puzzles and reciting number sequences backwards.


Same for me in 91/92.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2023 12:02     Subject: Re:What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Otis Lennon?


Wikipedia says it is administered in groups. I distinctly remember being in a room alone being tested with puzzles and reciting number sequences backwards.


Same in 87/88 for me. I was definitely not with a group.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2023 12:01     Subject: Re:What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Otis Lennon?


Wikipedia says it is administered in groups. I distinctly remember being in a room alone being tested with puzzles and reciting number sequences backwards.


Oh I took that one too! It was fun.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2023 11:06     Subject: What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
Wisc
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2023 09:48     Subject: What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
I’m 42 and I took the wisc in elementary school.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2023 09:48     Subject: Re:What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Otis Lennon?


Wikipedia says it is administered in groups. I distinctly remember being in a room alone being tested with puzzles and reciting number sequences backwards.


That's the WISC (not sure what version in the 80's). You can take the WAIS-IV as an adult, but it's pricey.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wechsler_Intelligence_Scale_for_Children#Test_format

The puzzles are for the Visual Spatial Index and the number sequences assess Working Memory.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2023 09:47     Subject: Re:What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Otis Lennon?


Wikipedia says it is administered in groups. I distinctly remember being in a room alone being tested with puzzles and reciting number sequences backwards.


That's the WISC (not sure what version in the 80's). You can take the WAIS-IV as an adult, but it's pricey.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2023 08:52     Subject: Re:What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
Anonymous wrote:Otis Lennon?


Wikipedia says it is administered in groups. I distinctly remember being in a room alone being tested with puzzles and reciting number sequences backwards.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2023 06:22     Subject: Re:What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
Otis Lennon?
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2023 03:21     Subject: What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
I grew up in Montgomery County, MD. Just curious which one it was.

I wonder if I’d score highly now in middle age or not. I’m not particularly successful in terms of how I turned out, although I’m a capable employed adult.