Score Guides

Each guide is written by a clinician to explain one score or section of an assessment report: what it measures, what the range means, and how it shows up day to day. Start with the foundations, then open the section that matches your report.

Start Here – The Basics

Before opening a specific guide, start with the foundations: the bell curve, standard scores, percentiles, and confidence intervals in plain language. This guide is free.

Understanding the Tests

An assessment usually draws on more than one test. Some measure thinking and reasoning (cognitive ability); others measure learned academic skills like reading, writing, and math (achievement). The Testing hub groups every instrument by type and links its plain-language guide, so you can find the one that matches your report.

Sample guides: WISC-V, WAIS-5, WIAT-4, and the Woodcock-Johnson V Tests of Achievement.

Reading Your Profile

Some questions are not about a single score but about how the scores relate: a gap between reasoning and academic skills, an uneven profile, or one summary number sitting above another. These guides explain those patterns in plain language, and what they can and cannot mean.

Sample guides: cognitive vs achievement scores and GAI vs FSIQ.

Understanding Diagnoses

These guides explain what a diagnosis means in plain language, from how a diagnosis is made to the specific conditions that show up in reports. A specific learning disorder, for example, is an unexpected difficulty in one area of learning given a person’s overall ability, and it is not a reflection of intelligence or effort. Open the one that matches your report.

Sample guides: how a diagnosis is made; ADHD; autism; and specific learning disorder in reading, writing, and math.

What’s Next?

Plain-language guides to the support, services, and at-home steps that often follow an assessment, written for a parent or an adult. The overview explains how the section is organized and what to expect after a report, from getting support at school to therapies and strategies to try at home. Each guide is linked from there.

Sample guides: IEP vs 504 plan, school accommodations, college and university accommodations, and workplace accommodations.

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