IQ Testing
Our IQ testing service provides you with a comprehensive look at your cognitive abilities. This is a core service, but the cost is relatively low. The benefits of IQ tests include that they can help you understand, enhance, and tap into your strengths while overcoming any challenges. IQ test scores can be enlightening and quite helpful and intelligence testing in general can help you know and reach your potential.
Benefits of IQ Testing
These assessments can lead to new insights and deeper understanding of your strengths, opportunities, and challenges.
Deepen Understanding
IQ Testing benefits include revealing new insights into the strengths you never knew you had and cognitive challenges that may get in the way of your goals. It can point out how you can develop success strategies.
Each assessment is broken down into many subtests that measure specific aspects of intelligence. Thus, one of the main benefits of intelligence testing is that it can help you know the details of your strengths and weaknesses, well beyond just a single score.
Reduce Stress
Intelligence Testing benefits also include helping fulfill specific needs, whether you need extra time on standardized tests, an accommodation at work, help with a particular type of task, or even if you are applying for Mensa!
IQ test scores can therefore help you truly reach your potential, with reduced barriers and improved clarity about your intellectual strengths. This can help you in almost any setting, from work, to school, to social and family. We provide information tailored to the area that you want more information.
Find New Pathways
IQ test scores will show you how to achieve success and develop resilience so that your academic and work performance is enhanced! It can help you use your strengths to overcome your weaknesses
One of the main benefits of having different types of IQ tests is that it can show you how to overcome weaknesses using your strengths, and it can show how to maximize your strengths in general. We give you a highly detailed report, with specific recommendations.
Measure Improvement
While IQ does not change much as we age, the factors influencing whether we can tap into our strengths do. Thus, repeated assessments over time can give clues as to whether other factors are diminishing. It can also find new pockets of strength.
For example, some people experience anxiety that affects their performance, while others have symptoms of ADHD. As you learn ways to manage those symptoms a repeated assessment can help you see whether they are working, and possibly how you can modify them. We can repeat assessments as needed.
IQ Testing Overview
Intelligence evaluations can be valuable and powerful for assessing your specific and unique cognitive abilities and potential. The benefits include providing a standardized measure – meaning that it has been proven with thousands of people – of intelligence and cognitive functioning.
What IQ Tests Measure
Intelligence testing can help identify intellectual strengths and weaknesses, guide educational and career decisions, and provide insights into cognitive resiliency and potential. It can be combined with Personality evaluation and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder for more powerful results.
Some examples of what these assessments measure include verbal comprehension, perceptual reasoning, working memory, and processing speed. You’ll find out where your challenges lie, including whether you have a learning difference and how to overcome them. You’ll also learn about your exceptional cognitive abilities and how to tap into and possibly enhance them. Here is an excellent article about the benefits and uses of IQ Testing. I also do multiple intelligence testing which goes beyond traditional meausures.
Benefits of Intelligence Testing
We provide these evaluations for various important purposes, including:
Educational Placement:
IQ Testing including the WISC IQ test can help identify gifted students who may benefit from advanced or accelerated programs and students who may need additional support or accommodations to ensure that their strengths emerge and they can overcome challenges. This can start as early as preschool with the WPPSI assessment. College and graduate students often benefit, too, even if they are often the ones implementing the strategies as opposed to the school. For example, these assessments can help determine the likelihood you have a specific learning difference such as dyslexia.
Intelligence Testing and Career Choices
Knowing your strengths and weaknesses in problem-solving, critical thinking, and other intellectual skills can help you make career decisions. This doesn’t mean you have to choose a career that matches all your strengths, but rather, you choose one that matches your interests. Understanding your scores can help you become successful by utilizing your strengths and overcoming your challenges.
Self-Understanding
Many people seek these assessments out of curiosity or for self-assessment to better understand their cognitive strengths and weaknesses. This understanding and the specific recommendations we can make in your report can be helpful in all aspects of your life.
We also do assessments for other purposes, such as for Mensa membership.
IQ Testing Conclusions
It should be noted that Intelligence is a multifaceted construct, and IQ tests may not capture all aspects of human cognition, such as creativity, emotional intelligence, or practical skills. This is why our services can also provide additional information using other assessments and contextual information.
We interpret your scores as part of a comprehensive evaluation and consider multiple sources of information. We take a positive approach, our reports focusing as much on enhancing and developing strengths as we do on overcoming challenges. We like to see one of the main benefits of these assessments as helping people understand their potential, not just a way to point our problems.
We’d be happy to talk to you about whether IQ testing is a good fit for you, and exactly what you might expect as far as the unique benefits for you. Please feel free to reach out any time.
Intelligence Testing Instruments
Intelligence Tests
IQ tests break intelligence into ten sub scores, each measuring specific cognitive ability aspects. The can be combined and compared to add power and detail to those conclusions.
Supplemental IQ Tests
Most measures have supplemental measures that can be used when more information is needed to reach conclusions. In some cases, these additional measures can deliver new insights.
Specific Add-Ons
Sometimes, different measures can be combined to add to the conclusions that are reached. Some measure intelligence differently and combining them can add to the depth of what can be concluded. Examples include the Wisconsin Card Sorting Assessments or specific working memory evaluations.
Intelligence Testing Example
Jim decided to come in for IQ testing before starting veterinary school. He knows how rigorous graduate school will be and wants to design a plan that maximizes his strengths and helps him overcome his challenges.
Jim takes the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, which shows that he has strengths in nonverbal reasoning that are particularly strong when solving a problem in three dimensions. It also shows that he has a challenge in attention when the material is presented out loud and when he has to use working (immediate) memory on a variety of tasks.
Jim’s report outlines what these conclusions might mean for veterinary school. He will likely excel in topics such as anatomy and when he has to work directly with an animal. He plans to make sure that he fully develops that strength. He will try to choose class schedules that always include these classes to lower his stress level and preserve his confidence.
He also hears that he may need help in lecture-type classes, especially when things move quickly, and it’s hard to take notes. He plans to record these classes and also get better at note-taking possibly. He will communicate up front with professors so they know this challenge, and he’ll go to them when he feels he’s fallen behind.
The IQ testing benefits for Jim were numerous. He was able to see how he could use his strengths to overcome some of his challenges, and what accommodations would help him overcome most of the rest. The benefits of these assessments are often that clear, and we always ensure that you get a comprehensive report that covers all of it.
FAQ
Here are some of the questions people often ask about IQ Tests.
You can also contact us or schedule a consultation to get more information (see below).
How Long Will IQ Testing Last?
Intelligence testing takes place during one session which lasts 90-120 minutes. We then have a 30-45 minute feedback session after the results are in. IQ tests can be partially given virtually.
How Specific are the Results of IQ testing?
All standard evaluations are broken up into smaller subtests and composites. This ensures that you get much more than an overall score, with details about your strengths, opportunities for growth, and needs for support. We can add specific assessments that help evaluate other aspects of intelligence to provide added information.
When Will I Get the Report?
We try to produce a draft psychological report within around 2 weeks from testing. Before issuing a final report, we will ensure it answers your questions and more.
Can Intelligence Testing be Combined with other Tests?
Yes, we often combine these assessments with others such as Dyslexia Testing, Personality evaluation, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorder. When we meet to go over your hopes, goals, and questions, we may suggest a good combination of measures that can go further and identify potential.
Final thoughts
What Do IQ Test Scores Mean
IQ test scores are standardized measures of human intelligence derived from a variety of cognitive tasks. Here are key points about what your scores represent:
Standardized IQ Test Scores
All IQ test scores are typically standardized, so the average score is set to 100, with a standard deviation of 15. This means most people score between 85 and 115, or in the “average” range. We use “Comparative Measures” to reflect how your performance compares to a normative sample. For example, a score of 130 indicates a performance better than approximately 98% of people in the normative sample. The categories are below. Overall scores do not have much meaning, but the following subsets do.
Categories of IQ Scores:
– 70-85: Below average intelligence.
– 85-115: Average intelligence.
– 115-130: Above average intelligence.
– 130 and above: High intelligence.
Cognitive Abilities and Intelligence Testing
Specific subsets of IQ test scores assess a range of specific cognitive abilities, including:
– Logical reasoning: Problem-solving and understanding complex concepts.
– Mathematical skills: Ability to understand and manipulate numbers.
– Verbal skills: Comprehension and use of language.
– Memory: Short-term and working memory capabilities.
– Spatial abilities: Understanding and manipulating visual and spatial information.
We can also compare IQ test scores from different subtests to determine other areas of strength and challenges. We can also compare your scores with your achievement on certain academic and work tasks to see whether something is interfering with your natural potential.
Use and Limitations of IQ Test Scores
– Educational Placement: Identifying students needing special education services, specific academic accommodations, or advanced academic programs.
– Job Screening: Some employers use IQ tests in their hiring process, especially for jobs requiring high cognitive skills or specific skills. IQ tests can be used with teams to bring together people with complementary skills.
– Research: Studying cognitive processes and the correlation between intelligence and various life outcomes.
IQ tests don’t measure creativity, emotional intelligence, other kinds of intelligence, practical skills, or other non-cognitive abilities. Socio-economic factors, educational opportunities, and cultural biases in test design can also influence scores.
Overall, we see your scores as providing valuable information about certain cognitive abilities, they are only one aspect of a person’s overall intelligence and potential.
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