Just had a rather unexpected parents' evening for DD. We knew we'd be getting her CATS scores, and without having much idea what low, average, high scores actually were, I thought I knew roughly what they'd 'feel' like.
They didn't. The good news is that they're better than I expected - especially good news as DD really needs the ego boost. The odd thing is that there's quite a spread across the scores. I can't remember exact scores, but her verbal reasoning is pretty much the same as she's overall score, her non verbal is about ten points higher, and her quantitative ten points lower - so about a twenty point spread. I've seen a few things saying big differences can be a concern - but I'm guessing not so much if the lowest score is still good.
Has anyone seen similar spreads with DCs? What does it mean?! It is interesting in the context of the rest of the chat, as she's struggling with maths at the moment - she's capable, but very, very slow. Her mental maths scores are poor to mediocre - which seems to fit with the spread of scores to me, ie her maths is not the greatest of her skills, and take away the visual cues and she becomes worse. This seems to make sense, given the high NVR score, and parental history as well (DH is a mathematician who's not much cop at mental arithmetic, I'm an English graduate who can't spell out loud).
I'm a labeller by nature, but am trying to resist the temptation to find these patterns a label - but I do wonder if there is a pattern to her learning that we can learn from, and use it to help her?