2007-06-01 07:56:23 · 8 answers · asked by bluwoofer 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Standards & Testing
Funny question.
School is the only place where IQ has any meaning. The IQ test was developed as a tool to determine what grade level students should be placed. After much testing, it was learned that age is far and away the most important factor determining readiness to learn. Because of that, most schools simply ask your age, and don't give IQ tests to everyone.
However even if most people are normal learners, some are not. Here is where testing helps separate the learning challenged from under achievement. An IQ of 80 means, by definition, the student will work at 3rd grade level when his age contemporaries are at 5th grade level. This is about the limit at which regular 5th grade classes can tolorate. Once more than 2 grade levels behind, the student will be better served by special methods teaching.
Same for GATE. Very few elementary school teachers are prepared to instruct high school algebra. These students need to learn in a non-standard enviroment with special teachers.
2007-06-01 09:34:40 · answer #1 · answered by lare 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I am a school psychologist and one of the roles I play in the school setting is to help determine if a student has a learning disability. In order to do this I administer the WISC-IV to obtain an IQ score and then compare that score to a nationally standardized achievement test (WIAT-2). If a student's IQ score is statistically higher than their achievement scores, then the student could possibly have a learning disability. For this reason alone it seems beneficial, but limited in its scope. I cannot fathom why we would use IQ tests unless for this reason.
The Federal government in reauthorizing the IDEA laws, promoted the idea of Response To Invention (RTI) where we will not be looking as much at the IQ scores as we are in how the student responds to research-based academic interventions.
Do I personally like IQ scores? No. A person's ability should be assessed in many different ways, so depending on an IQ score to tell the tale of the student sometimes discounts a student's ability in other areas such as music, art and debate.
Why so many students who are doing well in school want to know their IQ baffles me completely.
2007-06-01 15:27:03 · answer #2 · answered by countbehavior 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What for???
You don't need an additional reason for school kids to tease each other.... at least I wouldn't like to be the child with the lowest IQ being picked on by the other kids.
Leave the IQ test for older students who need to identify their intellectual strengths. Also, it should be something people do voluntarily.
2007-06-01 15:04:44 · answer #3 · answered by gia 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. The score of your IQ doesn't mean squat!
2007-06-01 14:58:32 · answer #4 · answered by Deb S 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It would depend on what was done after each persons results were known.
2007-06-01 14:59:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. That would just be one other test everyone is freaked about.
2007-06-01 15:03:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
why? you can't change a person's IQ...
2007-06-01 14:58:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why, so you can mock me?
2007-06-01 15:11:26 · answer #8 · answered by Aingeal 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋