My kid scored in the 98th percentile on reading and vocabulary and the 99th on writing on the Iowa Standardized Tests. Her reading and writing are at 9th grade level.
This is not surprising given how much we talk. We went to the kids’ gym today, and we talked so much, my jaw almost fell off. And of course, when I talk, I use all of my normal professorial vocabulary, such as, “I admonished the lab worker for her unseemly conduct and implored her to abstain from such behavior henceforth.”
Forget 9th grade, I think she’d beat most of my college students in vocabulary skills.
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Talk about linguistic intelligence being in the genes.
That’s very impressive. Why did you get her tested? Is this something to inform future plans?
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It’s standardized testing done by the school. It’s mandatory starting in the third grade. Parents have an option not to request the results if they don’t want to know.
It’s a very large, complex report with many data points. Most parents won’t even understand the percentiles and everything else. Of course, one can always ask the AI to interpret.
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Genes ✅ Mother-daughter interaction ✅ Innate verbal intelligence ✅
But the reading! It’s the reading!
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Iowa? Not Illinois?
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It’s a standardized test used nationwide.
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We’re in FL and my kids took the IOWA test this year 😉
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Apparently, Iowa is great at making standardized tests.
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When I was a kid, we all took the CAT– the California achievement test. IOWA has since superseded it.
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