Anonymous
Post 05/27/2024 10:28     Subject: What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My mom claims my IQ as tested in the 1980s when I was in 2nd grade was above 140. I don’t believe it at all. I’m smart but not gifted. My dh is much much smarter than I am.


Me again—does anyone remember a question on the test that had to do with measuring water with different sized containers??? That’s all I remember.




Maybe that was it! But I remember the test administrator saying the details to me and not seeing a picture. But that was 40 years ago, so who knows
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2024 10:26     Subject: What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My mom claims my IQ as tested in the 1980s when I was in 2nd grade was above 140. I don’t believe it at all. I’m smart but not gifted. My dh is much much smarter than I am.


Me again—does anyone remember a question on the test that had to do with measuring water with different sized containers??? That’s all I remember.


Anonymous
Post 05/27/2024 10:08     Subject: What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
I was in a gifted class from 1st-5th grade, which was the highest grade the program was offered. This was a Richmond suburb. It was based on test scores but I don’t remember taking any test in a room alone, but who knows. It was basically just the smartest 20% of the grade was all put in one class and taught harder material. I guess sort of similar to AAP but no formal application process and no one left their home school.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2024 19:26     Subject: Re:What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
I remember a taking tests in elementary and middle school in NY (Long Island) that involved pattern completion, spatial rearranging figures and remembering word definitions after a delay. I still remember how they read the words and some of the examples: wuzzle is to mix. Remember wuzzle is to mix; a yonker is a young man. Remember yonker is a young man; baloo is a bear. Remember Baloo is a bear. Everyone in the school took it. Don’t remember if it was every year but definitely did it multiple grades.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2024 18:38     Subject: What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
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Anonymous wrote: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.



I also remember taking the Iowa test of basic skills. I think we also took the California Achievement Test. So many bubbles to fill in!


Aren’t those standard tests to make sure student’s academic knowledge is where it’s supposed to be?
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2024 18:35     Subject: What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
Anonymous wrote:I’m from NY and graduated high school in the mid 80s. I also was put in the inaugural G&T program in my school. I do not remember ever taking an IQ test where we had to talk to someone. I later saw my IQ score in my school records, so they did something. We did take a bunch of what I call “bubble tests”. I remember at various point seeing the names “Otis-Lennon”, “California Achievement Test “ and I think Stanford-Binet. Never heard of WISC until I had my own kids. I remember liking the test we took every so often that had us doing patterns and sequences.

My IQ is usually scored in the high 130s. I have always been what I call “practically bright”. I am the standardized test queen - I have the kind of intelligence where I understand the logic of how to take those kinds of tests and how they’re structured. I don’t feel smarter than other people, but I do realize over time that I don’t understand why people just don’t “get” certain things that to me seem practical and obvious.


Why would you be seeing paper records of your school years? And why would you take multiple IQ tests?
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2024 14:28     Subject: Re:What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
They put my brother in the GT class in MS based on scores on the CAT or Iowa test. His IQ was around 130 but he was so lazy by then that he failed most of his classes. I had an IQ around 119 and missed the cutoff but had much better EF skills. He never finished his freshman year of college and I have a Master's degree. IQ isn't everything.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2024 12:51     Subject: What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
Stanford-Binet (sp?) was a popular IQ test at one point.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2024 12:00     Subject: Re:What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.


OP - how did you find the record of it? Mensa used your childhood test to get in even recently?

Also… how do you like the Mensa activities and people?


Fun fact. My BIL, who is lazy and unemployed but really funny, was bragging about winning 1K games of solitaire and about his "giftedness" and that's why he couldnt' stand to work. So I wondered. Turns out you can use other tests to get into to MENSA. I took the GRE and my score easily got me in (back in the day when it was 3 parts, not 2). aNd I know how to earn money in the real world so I"m pretty sure I'm smarter than he is.


IQ is more than income.


This. Real geniuses (like the scary kind) tend to succeed because the practicalities and implementations are handled by my bright (130-140) and organized peers.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2024 11:46     Subject: Re:What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.


OP - how did you find the record of it? Mensa used your childhood test to get in even recently?

Also… how do you like the Mensa activities and people?


Fun fact. My BIL, who is lazy and unemployed but really funny, was bragging about winning 1K games of solitaire and about his "giftedness" and that's why he couldnt' stand to work. So I wondered. Turns out you can use other tests to get into to MENSA. I took the GRE and my score easily got me in (back in the day when it was 3 parts, not 2). aNd I know how to earn money in the real world so I"m pretty sure I'm smarter than he is.


IQ is more than income.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2024 07:54     Subject: What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
I’m from NY and graduated high school in the mid 80s. I also was put in the inaugural G&T program in my school. I do not remember ever taking an IQ test where we had to talk to someone. I later saw my IQ score in my school records, so they did something. We did take a bunch of what I call “bubble tests”. I remember at various point seeing the names “Otis-Lennon”, “California Achievement Test “ and I think Stanford-Binet. Never heard of WISC until I had my own kids. I remember liking the test we took every so often that had us doing patterns and sequences.

My IQ is usually scored in the high 130s. I have always been what I call “practically bright”. I am the standardized test queen - I have the kind of intelligence where I understand the logic of how to take those kinds of tests and how they’re structured. I don’t feel smarter than other people, but I do realize over time that I don’t understand why people just don’t “get” certain things that to me seem practical and obvious.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2024 07:53     Subject: What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
Anonymous wrote:How many of the gifted would now be considered autistic? Does your lack of social skills and executive functioning hold you back in life?


Not autistic. I’m a successful adult with a PhD. My social skills are a strength. I worry I might have adhd, and I’m really luck to be smart enough to compensate.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2024 07:50     Subject: What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The Stanford-Binet. There’s a wiki on it


I’m pretty sure that’s what I took in the late 70s.


+1. I thought being identified as gifted was helpful. In early elementary my teachers just let me do my own thing, reading books or doing worksheets because I had already mastered the grade level skills.
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2024 07:48     Subject: What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
How many of the gifted would now be considered autistic? Does your lack of social skills and executive functioning hold you back in life?
Anonymous
Post 05/26/2024 07:32     Subject: What IQ test did they use in the 80s to identify gifted kids?
Anonymous wrote:My mom claims my IQ as tested in the 1980s when I was in 2nd grade was above 140. I don’t believe it at all. I’m smart but not gifted. My dh is much much smarter than I am.


Me again—does anyone remember a question on the test that had to do with measuring water with different sized containers??? That’s all I remember.