Psychometrists

Although these assessments may teach kids to be better test takers, every child has a different strategy when taking a test, and for most adolescents one test defines how smart they are. In one test a myriad of issues could go on that could cause someone to be labeled as not smart enough or even too smart for the rest of their lives. Based on a test, someone is put into different classes, and classes build on top of each other, and by the time it is too late that person would have lost months if not a year of knowledge and comprehension. Then, there are those students who do not care. They feel the tests are worthless without incentive, so why should they do their best. These students’ lack of effort could result in ruined reputation for the whole school and themselves. The National Center for Fair and Open Testing stated, “a test is completely reliable if you would get exactly the same results the second time you administered it. All tests have ‘measurement error’." This means an individual's score may vary significantly from day to day due to testing conditions or the test-taker's mental or emotional state. Scores of young children and scores on subsections of tests are particularly

First, how can a test possibly be able to determine how “smart” a student is? It seems to make more sense to have the teacher the student has been with all year, to make the assessment. Also, some very bright students get test anxiety and cannot show their strengths in high-stakes assessments. When I was in elementary school, even though I did really well in class, I often did not do well on tests. I do not believe that it’s because I am not smart, but that

In 1968 Rosenthal and Jacobson visited an elementary school and gave IQ tests to all of the students. They ended up randomly picking 20% of the students in the school and identified them as having especially high potential for academic achievement. As the school year went on towards the end the students ended up getting retested. The students who were labeled as bright earlier in the year ended up scoring higher than their peers. The teachers had high expectations for these students which could have led to the students seeing different material which expected more from them. The children most likely acted different also after they found out what was expected from them. So, all of the expectations that everyone had for these children actually

If the children work together or side by side, they have the opportunity to learn from each other. The children also learn to share their ideas with others. If one of the children is too small to understand the procedure, have material available for the child to use hand-eye coordination Have them tie shoes or zip zippers to use their fine motor skill or run, throwing a ball to use their gross motor skill. They can also mix, measure, or pour the required material for the experiment.

Encourage teachers in your school district to move to more hands on learning for student in preschool through high school. Middle and high school students can benefit from doing experiments. “Encourage your child to study in several short blocks of time, instead of one extended time period” (Hutton).

There is a copious amount of advantages and disadvantages associated with this proposition of a standardized IQ test granting entry to third level education institutions. From the research I have carried out, I found many theories of intelligence and intelligence assessment, which convey the various advantages and disadvantages associated with this proposition. In my opinion, and from the research and reading I have carried out, I find the ‘standardized IQ test’ to be slightly too general to be used.

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The major findings of that report indicated that the effects of these tests on social classes were ‘strong and consistent’ and that while ‘the upper respondent is more likely to favor the use of tests than the lower class respondent,’ the lower class respondent is more likely to see intelligence tests measuring inborn intelligence (Garrison).

I think that standardized tests do not completely test a child’s academic abilities. One way that standardized tests are bad is that many students get nervous because of the test and score low even though they are intelligent. According to a testing researcher testing produces anxiety on even the brightest of students and may cause them to score low. Standardized

Tests should be administered with the goal of getting the most accurate reading of the child, says Arsenault. Ways to do this are, make sure the child took his/her medications, got a decent night’s sleep and for students with weakness in language reasoning, you can deem the language parts of the cognitive assessment as invalid and focus more on the visual-spatial.  I was struck by the way Arsenault interprets information about diagnostics. His view is that the assessments are not a “stead-fast, concrete representation of a child’s abilities forever” (Arsenault). This viewpoint is encouraging to me because most of my experiences have been that

Psychodynamic Theory The psychodynamic theory, also known as the psychoanalytic theory is based on personality and the dynamics of mental energy. The psychodynamic process exhibits how mental energy flows from one personality structure to another. There are three main structures of the mind. ID is the personality system everyone is born with.

Everyone learns at a different pace, some slower than others. This makes testing even harder on those who have a tough time picking up on certain subjects. According to Strauss, “tests used today cannot broadly assess what students know and can do, so using them as an all-important metric is unfair”. These tests do not show a students’ real intelligence, but how well they can retain information then dump it out. This is obviously not the best way to teach students how

When it comes to intelligence test, aptitude test, and achievement test we know that each test focuses on different areas that help identify and evaluate a variety of skills and abilities a child might have. Some kids today face academic problems whether is language or origin and require special attention. The main focus is the effective, competent, and ethical application of assessment methods in various settings and with diverse populations. (Drummond, 2010). Having the proper research and understanding will definitely be beneficial in obtaining positive results and this is valuable information only these test can

The ability to write and speak well are not scored, neither are creativity and problem solving skills. Rather these tests test ability to memorise information that will later be used on the test. This causes unfair manipulation of test scores and less knowledge retention. When we go from expanding knowledge to testing memory this doesn’t allow us to identify skills employers are looking for in youth. Current tests aren’t getting kids ready for the workforce nor are they an accurate measurement of intelligence. They’re a (not always working) measure of a specific type of

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) treatment is a cognitive-behavioral approach that emphasizes the psychosocial aspects of treatment. The theory behind the approach is that some people are prone to react in a more intense and out-of-the-ordinary manner toward certain emotional situations, primarily those found in romantic, family and friend relationships. DBT theory suggests that some people’s arousal levels in such situations can increase far more quickly than the average person’s, attain a higher level of emotional stimulation, and take a significant amount of time to return to baseline arousal levels. (Staff, 2013) People who are sometimes diagnosed with borderline personality disorder experience extreme swings in their emotions, see the world in black-and-white shades, and seem to always be jumping from one crisis to another. Because few people understand such reactions — most of all their own family and a childhood that emphasized invalidation — they don’t have any methods for coping with these sudden, intense