The statement is designed to identify strengths in gifted children, even when a child is highly asynchronous. A few supplementary subtests may need to be administered to explore the child’s strengths more fully, but the extra time is warranted. The NAGC position statement offers guidelines for use of a variety of available WISC-V expanded index scores, several of which emphasize gifted strengths without processing skills. Gee, don’t gifted programs often require the Full Scale IQ? Hmmmmmm. They would be the most affected by this practice, but this pattern was apparent in a large database of gifted children. ![]() The same was true for the WISC-IV, warranting a previous position statement, “Use of the WISC-IV for Gifted Identification.” Should we be trying to summarize widely discrepant scores into a Full Scale IQ to identify gifted children? Twice exceptional children’s processing skills scores often plummet due to weaknesses. Once again, strong reasoning ability proves to be important for gifted identification on the WISC-V processing skills are less relevant, especially speed on paper-and-pencil tests. The discrepancies were significant enough to render the Full Scale IQ score (a summary of all areas) uninterpretable in most cases. They scored lower in processing skills, including Working Memory and Processing Speed (the lowest). The gifted children scored highest in the three index areas most heavily loaded for abstract reasoning (no real surprise): Verbal Comprehension, Visual Spatial, and Fluid Reasoning. sites, it reveals unusual scoring patterns on the WISC-V, quite unlike those of average children. On September 4, 2018, NAGC posted the position statement, “Use of the WISC-V for Gifted and Twice Exceptional Identification.” Based on a study of 390 gifted children from 7 U.S. ![]() Parents, you never fail to impress us! Let’s share this important secret with all advocates for gifted and twice exceptional children. Recently, parents contacted me about testing their daughter on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fifth Edition (WISC-V), asking specifically that we use the new National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) guidelines for administering the test! Her brother’s examiner hadn’t used those, and the new scoring methods might help their daughter.
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