My 6th grader was given the WJ Achievement test. His overall ge average was only 3.6.
How can he be in a 6th grade class functioning at a third grade level? How accurate are these tests? How much is the possible fault of bad teaching?
My 6th grader was given the WJ Achievement test. His overall ge average was only 3.6.
How can he be in a 6th grade class functioning at a third grade level? How accurate are these tests? How much is the possible fault of bad teaching?
Please start by asking these questions of the evaluator; then understand that the WJIII is an individual achievement test, not an assessment of how your child does in your school’s/state’s curriculum(look for results of high stakes testing done by your state for this info.); don’t use GE, look at the standard scores(average is 100, and standard deviation is 15-if this isn’t familiar to you, ask whomever did the testing to explain this to you, don’t try to interpret test results on your own.) Scoring at a GE of 3.3 means that your child(whatever grade) scores as well on this item, or test as a child who is in the third month of third grade would have on the same item(not that your child is equivalent toa 3.3 grader).
Look at http://alpha.fdu.edu/psychology/woodcock-index.htm for more info.