When I was a kid ... wait for it .... this wasn't so complicated. You turned up to the first day of school, sat in gym and then went off to your classroom.
I just spend hours trying to work out if my kids fall in the right age group for state pre K (seats are like fairy dust or winning the lottery but you gotta have a dream, right). Then I came into a whole new level called 'testing criteria'.
We are going public all the way but there are some institutions that whilst public, run like a private. My future nobel award winning toddlers have to get tested for .....
I just spend hours trying to work out if my kids fall in the right age group for state pre K (seats are like fairy dust or winning the lottery but you gotta have a dream, right). Then I came into a whole new level called 'testing criteria'.
We are going public all the way but there are some institutions that whilst public, run like a private. My future nobel award winning toddlers have to get tested for .....
five areas assessed both verbally and non-verbally (ten subtests in total)
- Fluid reasoning
- Knowledge
- Quantitative reasoning
- Visual-spatial processing
- Working memory
The verbal subtests of the SB5 test require facility with words and printed material (reading or speaking).
Verbal Domain Subtest Information:
- Fluid Reasoning: early reasoning with pictures, analogies.
- Verbal Knowledge: vocabulary. Includes toys, identification of body parts, Verbal Quantitative
- Reasoning: contains five different levels. tapping number concepts, problem solving, and figural-geometric/measurement estimation problems
- Verbal Visual-Spatial Processing
- Verbal Working Memory: memory for sentences and last word.
The nonverbal subtests for the Stanford-Binet test require understanding spoken instructions and allow for pointing responses, how to work with puzzle-like pieces, and manipulation of toys to indicate correct answers.
Nonverbal Domain Subtest Information:
Nonverbal Domain Subtest Information:
- Nonverbal Fluid Reasoning
- Nonverbal Knowledge
- Nonverbal Quantitative Reasoning
- Nonverbal Visual-Spatial Processing
- Nonverbal Working Memory
Skills required to do well on the Stanford-Binet test include:
- Listening ability
- General knowledge
- Language development
- Mathematical achievement
- Mathematical knowledge
- Spatial relations
- Visualization
- Induction
- Working memory
- Memory span
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no chance!
This is to get into public pre-k?
ReplyDeleteMy son goes to private school (a 'rigorously academic' one) and had to do no such testing.
My head = spinning for you.