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Jennifer Williams
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Date Posted: 07:04:12 06/21/10 Mon
In reply to:
Dr. M-J
's message, "Assignment #3" on 12:17:50 06/19/10 Sat
>Assignment 3 (Intelligence):
>
>Prior to going to the following websites, write down
>your opinion of IQ testing and you believe your IQ to
>be. Take the designmated tests for
>1) Classical IQ test:
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><a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.queendom.com/tests/iq/classical_iq_r2_access">http://www.queendom.com/tests/iq/classical_iq_r2_access</a>
>.html
>2) Culture-fair IQ test:
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><a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.queendom.com/tests/access_page/index.htm?idR">http://www.queendom.com/tests/access_page/index.htm?idR</a>
>egTest=1112
>2) Emotional intelligence:
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><a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.queendom.com/tests/iq/emotional_iq_r2_access">http://www.queendom.com/tests/iq/emotional_iq_r2_access</a>
>.html
>
>Post to the discussion board your opinion of IQ tests,
>both prior to and after taking the above tests. Did
>it change during the course of taking the tests? How
>accurate did you find the tests? How were the results
>useful to you? What parts of the tests were most
>challenging for you? (The posting of your scores on
>these tests is not required.)
Previous to this experience, I had only ever taken one IQ test. I was quite young, and I took an internet IQ test to see what all of the hype was about. I remember having good scores and that I found the process to be long but interesting. Having only this experience under my belt, I sat down in anticipation of this assignment and thought about IQ tests.
My view of intelligence has certainly changed in the fifteen years since my last IQ test. I think getting your BA and teaching for six years would do that for anyone. I now have very different views on how people learn and express what they know. I do think, that IQ tests have some value. They work to serve a specific purpose by providing hard numbers to feed our data-hungry society. Using IQ tests as the only method of assessment is where I start to find issue with the tests themselves. I understand now, after all of my life and professional experience, that intelligence is a multi-faceted thing and that all people reach their intellectual potential in different ways. Students are put in classrooms where they can choose how they would like to be assessed according to the way that they learn because teachers know that what makes sense to one child, may not work for the next. It seems a bit antiquated and unfair to use one uniform, standardized test to assess so many different types of people. Furthermore, to have the results play such a vital role in the lives of some people hardly seems fair.
After taking the three IQ tests listed in the syllabus, I feel the same about IQ tests. It was interesting to get my scores, but I found the process to be a bit tedious. The scores were what I expected but don't really affect how I feel about my intelligence. The thing that struck me the most was how easily distracted I got. You would think that someone my age would be able to sit down for 40 minutes and take an IQ test without losing focus. The content of the tests (particularly the emotional intelligence test) as well as their length and repetition caused my mind to wander and surely affected my scores. I enjoyed the vocabulary and logic questions quite a bit. I didn't see much value in the emotional IQ test as it seemed relatively easy to guess answers that would get you a good score. It was interesting to take the tests but I would be upset if I was judged solely on them.
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