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Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or does some one else also get the feeling that every time a question about where to take your DC for WISC or SB testing comes up it gets the same response.

Either some one is promoting GMU students or the same psychologists names get posted again and again. It seems a bit fishy . What do you think ??

FCPS itself mentions GMU as a place to get the test.

Of course they do !

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Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or does some one else also get the feeling that every time a question about where to take your DC for WISC or SB testing comes up it gets the same response.

Either some one is promoting GMU students or the same psychologists names get posted again and again. It seems a bit fishy . What do you think ??

FCPS itself mentions GMU as a place to get the test.

Of course they do !

Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or does some one else also get the feeling that every time a question about where to take your DC for WISC or SB testing comes up it gets the same response.

Either some one is promoting GMU students or the same psychologists names get posted again and again. It seems a bit fishy . What do you think ??

Anonymous wrote:Is it just me or does some one else also get the feeling that every time a question about where to take your DC for WISC or SB testing comes up it gets the same response.

Either some one is promoting GMU students or the same psychologists names get posted again and again. It seems a bit fishy . What do you think ??

Q: Who are the test examiners, and how are they trained?
A : Our INDIVIDUAL intelligence test examiners are graduate students in GMU programs in clinical or school psychology. All examiners have received formal training and supervision in psychological testing. A licensed psychologist supervises every case.

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Anonymous wrote:Can some one actually help and suggest a good licensed psychologist for WISC Test ?? please

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/368617.page#4815484

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Anonymous wrote:Is there a cheaper way to get WISC testing done ? do the students at GMU do it at a lower cost then the licensed psychologist ?

Nope, it is a huge profit-maker for GMU. The students are paying GMU for the credit hours and the parents are paying GMU for the "privilege" of having students administer the test! Genius.

And in turn, FCPS has GMU write up a "stellar" report about AAP and how wonderful it is; only to have more parents clamoring to have their kids take (and pay for) the WISC at GMU... and so on and so. So much for objectivity in this process. No wonder AAP is so full of wealthy white and Asian kids. Their parents know about the appeals process and can afford the WISC. The whole system is corrupt.

FCPS reached out to GMU to perform a program evaluation because a group of parents felt the original subject matter expert (Dr. Joyce VanTassel-Baska of the Center for Gifted Education at the College of William and Mary) was biased.

This group of parents did not like the message that Dr. VanTassel-Baska presented to the School Board. Therefore FCPS went local to GMU.

So this group of parents was biased themselves. They didn't like one message, so they took it somewhere else until they got the desired result. Is there anything, anything at all, unbiased about AAP? I'd love to see a completely independent group do a study of AAP. A group with no affiliation whatsoever to FCPS or the "gifted" groups that lobby the school system unrelentingly. Now that would be a study worth reading.

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I am sure the group of parents would organize an attack on the study while the study was underway. If the message does not fit their preconceived definition of the Correct Way, they will attack it.

Anonymous wrote:Can some one actually help and suggest a good licensed psychologist for WISC Test ?? please