Testing
for Intelligence
I believe that
there should be a standard education system throughout the country. However I think that emotional assessments
are very necessary. We need to be knowledgeable about a child’s emotional
health as well as their cognitive abilities.
When children are having emotional issues it may become hard for them to
focus when they are given standardized test.
Therefore the results of the test are not in the child’s favor. Because children in rural parts of countries
are not receiving the same education as children in the urban cities some
standardized test are considered biased.
In my opinion I think that we should look at the fact that all children
are not on the same developmental levels.
Because children from all regions do not have the same education and
they do not have the same experiences in life we should not expect all children
to be on the same level when it comes to testing for Intelligence.
I
have friends that are already educators that have a lot of concerns with the
fact that everything that they do is now based on preparing for state
testing. Even when children have not
mastered a particular subject they have to go on to the next subject. The teachers have to revisit subject that are
not mastered when time is permissible.
State testing has put added pressures on schools and teachers. I believe that we must be held to certain
standards, and I also believe that there should be check points to test to make
sure that students are learning all of the required skills. I just feel that this has put an enormous
strain on the teachers and the students.
It appears that they are being rushed as if they are in a race. In the U. S. high schools use exit
examinations to make certain that students were meeting the minimum state
requirements for graduation. Today
testing is based on the curriculum and performance standards have been
developed in all fifty states.
In
Australia children are assessed at age 7 with a test that is called
NAPLAN. Another testing program that is
called Reach for the Stars performs assessments in Sensory, Developmental,
Social Emotional, Motor, Participation assessment, and Adaptive
behavior/cognition assessments. The
participation assessment is a school function assessment that evaluates and
monitors a student’s performance of functional tasks and activities at
school. The adaptive behavior assessment
is a test that assesses disorders of planning, organization and problem
solving. This test is administered to
the 16 year olds.
References
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_school#Austrailia
Gale Encyclopedia of
Education. Encyclopedia of
Education. Testing: Standardized Tests
and Educatgional Policy. Copyright ©
2002 by The Gale Group, Inc
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