Quote about Children/ Thanks

My quote about children is:

"Play is the work of a child"

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Testing for Intelligence?

I know that to some people, the IQ test score is what matters. It lets you know "how smart you are". I think that testing for intelligence is not a bad thing; I just think that when one looks only at test scores, they can only see academic intelligence. Something is missing in the academic testing. I think that if you are going to test a child then you should test the child as a whole.

Testing should include intelligence/academic as well as social skills and maybe even physical skills. In doing this, children would test all over the board. All children are different and they have strengths and weaknesses in different categories. Is it more important to be "smart" without the ability to socialize with peers? I am not sure. If a child who tests very high skips a grade or even jumps all the way to college and misses the opportunity to grow with his peers, is it better for him to grow with students older. I think that social is just as important as academic.

As I was doing research, I found it difficult to find how children are assessed in schools. In developing countries, they have a problem where there are millions of school age children that are not attending school. Teaching standards are often low when children are attending school. As I continued to look, I found more child assessments on how children are growing physically as opposed to developmentally. A cause of this is high child malnutrition rates.

 

Reference

www.unseco.org