Anonymous wrote:Just received our 2nd grader's Inview results and am trying to make sense of them. He scored in the mid 90s in Sequencing, Quant Reasoning and Verbal Reasoning-context but much lower in Analogies (56) and Verbal Reasoning, words (29). He has some noticeable strengths in math but I'm a little concerned about the low scores in the other areas. Do these indicate a deficit of some kind and how can we strengthen these skills? Thanks!

I have child like that now (much older now). We did not know in 2nd grade, but turned out 2e kid.
Watch for 3rd grade. That is where problems with writing start. If will see issues, do not listen to school and do private testing.

Glad to have found this thread. My second grader had a score of 98th percentile for Verbal Reasoning - Context but only 48% for Verbal Reasoning - Words. I would've thought she had a pretty good grasp of analogies, and I know her vocabulary is very strong. So I'm confused.

InView Verbal Reasoning questions are analogies. Some kids just pick a word that seems similar without understanding the analogy part. For example they might pick "talk" or "say" for "spoke" instead of realizing they have to figure out what a spoke is a part of.

Ex.

The first two underlined words in the sentence below go together in a certain way. Choose the answer that goes with the third underlined word the same way the first and second underlined words go together.

Blade is to fan as spoke is to ____________.

A. wheel

B. talk

C. say

D. poke

E. fun

OP, my son had a similar pattern. He scored in the 99th percentile on three of the tests (quantitative and verbal reasoning), but quite a bit lower (78th and 48th percentiles) on the sequencing and analogies exams. I got the impression from talking to him that he just wasn't familiar enough with the types of questions on those exams. Before the next round, we'll have him take a couple of practice exams so the he's more comfortable going in.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure why anyone is arguing either. if you don't understand the vocabulary, it is very difficult to understand the relationship between words OR the context.

But one can understand the vocabulary but not have the analytic skills to figure out the relationships between the words.

Abbot and Costello, "Who's on first?"

Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure why anyone is arguing either. if you don't understand the vocabulary, it is very difficult to understand the relationship between words OR the context.

But one can understand the vocabulary but not have the analytic skills to figure out the relationships between the words.

I'm not sure why anyone is arguing either. if you don't understand the vocabulary, it is very difficult to understand the relationship between words OR the context.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Verbal reasoning words is vocabulary.

On the test results, the category is "Verbal reasoning (words)" and there is also "Verbal reasoning (context)"

I didn't write the categories so you have no need to correct anyone here. You can move along.

I'm not sure why we are arguing but from a website about the test "Verbal Reasoning-Words: This question type measures the ability to understand relationships between words."

Anonymous wrote:Verbal reasoning words is vocabulary.

On the test results, the category is "Verbal reasoning (words)" and there is also "Verbal reasoning (context)"

I didn't write the categories so you have no need to correct anyone here. You can move along.

Anonymous wrote:Verbal reasoning words is vocabulary.

I don't think so - it's about relationship between words.

Verbal reasoning words is vocabulary.

Don't worry - they are areas you can work on and improve because at this stage its just assessing your child's natural abilities. My DS scored 97 on verbal reasoning (words) and tanked one of his math tests, but it all averaged out okay.

It may be a skill your DC hasn't practiced much.. I wouldn't worry much, my DC had a 66 in Sequencing.. can always practice over the Summer.

How is he doing in school? I wouldn't worry about those results if he's doing fine in the classroom. It's possible he just didn't understand how the questions were structured.

Just received our 2nd grader's Inview results and am trying to make sense of them. He scored in the mid 90s in Sequencing, Quant Reasoning and Verbal Reasoning-context but much lower in Analogies (56) and Verbal Reasoning, words (29). He has some noticeable strengths in math but I'm a little concerned about the low scores in the other areas. Do these indicate a deficit of some kind and how can we strengthen these skills? Thanks!