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If you live in my neighborhood (Charlottesville, VA, US), you or your child can participate in a project that will allow you to obtain scores from a battery of cognitive tests. My colleauge (and friend), Ron Reeve teaches a course that requires his graduate students to practice giving and interpreting widely used tests of cognitive ability. Professor Reeve is seeking volunteers to whom his students can administer the tests.

Better that Professor Reeve explain this than for me to make a mash of it:

I teach a graduate course (EDHS 764, “Cognitive Assessment”) in which doctoral students learn to give and interpret IQ tests. We are in need of about 50 volunteer children and adults who are willing to take the tests. The instruments will include the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Ability, and the Differential Ability Scales. Age range for the tests is 4 through 89; so there’s a test for almost everyone! Testing will require about 1.5 hours, and can occur at a time which is mutually convenient. Typically the testing takes place in Curry, although we can be flexible about that. The tasks are interesting, and most children (and adults) actually enjoy the 1 to 1 interaction and the experience of taking the tests. Results will be shared with you if you wish through a written report. Each test’s scoring and interpretation is supervised by me (I am a licensed clinical psychologist and a licensed school psychologist). There is no fee (typically in the community the fee is about $400). Contact me via e-mail if interested. We need adult subjects asap, to start in a week or so. Children are needed beginning in mid-September and throughout the fall. Thanks for considering this.

Write to Professor Reeve at RER5R -a@t- Virginia.edu (clean up that address, of course).

Parents, as Professor Reeve will likely inform you, it would be inappropriate to consider the results of these tests as definitive. They may be administered by novice or relatively inexperienced testers, so you shouldn’t plan to use the results in making decisions about your child’s future.