Great info. re WISC, meaning, interpretation and more

awesome- thanks
i was looking for exactly this a few weeks ago.

Great find!

I just printed it out and I am going to get out my son’s test results and compare.

Thanks
K.

This is interesting; it is a British site and the labels on the IQ scores don’t exactly go with what is used in the US. Here, average IQ is 90-110, high average is 110-120, superior is 120-130, and 130+ is very superior(gifted);I am not sure if the British WISC is the same as the WISC III used here.

it sounds like our wisc.
these are the scores that we use in alberta,although i don’t know that i have seen high and low average put in scores.

Does anyone know of another site that offers that info? Some of the subtests my son was given for the Wechsler were not listed? It would help alot to understand what each test means.

Thanks
K.

I posted this before, but a great site is http://alpha.fdu.edu/psychology/learning_disabilites.htm It has an article that explains the effect of speed on the performance subtests of picture arrangement, block design and object assembly that gives you the top score for a certain age without the bonus points for speed, and you can see that as your child gets older to get the higher performance scores they NEED to get the bonus pts for speed; so it’s not that they’re losing skills, it’s that the bar is set higher. Search on Ron Dumont on google, he’s one of the authors of this site and he has written a lot on testing.

I have been on this site a number of times and actually “spoke” with Ron Dumont before. His site doesn’t give the type of info that the English post did. It really helped to understand what the test means and what problems may arise from the low score, and it helps to know what support is needed.

Thanks
K.

It really shouldn’t be compared to the US WISC. To top it off, some of the information (like the ACID test) was debunked ten years ago. Read cautiously.