Testing for Intelligence


When I think in terms of the whole child, my mind immediately shift focus on the well-being of that child. This can include their health, safety, their support system, how they are engaged and even how they are challenged. A standardized test in my opinion only measures the child’s skill level as it pertains to a subject. I think their ability to cope with any given situation whether good or bad should be assessed. Many families face stressful situations, including parental depression, community violence, and poverty. Adversities like these can be painful for the children in these families. But the hopeful news is that research on children facing such problems has shown that many children show resilience and do surprisingly well. Resilience is the ability to cope with the stress caused by such challenging situations. You can encourage resilience in your child and develop it in yourself. Remember, even those children who are facing the most difficult life situations do not all turn out the same. But fostering resilience in yourself and your child can help you both feel stronger.  

Education in Japan
Japan has a highly competitive examination system, but it doesn't hold educators accountable for students' scores on standardized tests. Indeed, Japan specifically excludes student achievement on these tests as a criterion for the self-evaluations that Japanese schools conduct. In Japanese public schools, elementary and lower secondary students do not take high-stakes tests nor are they assigned to schools by achievement. The examination pressures begin between lower and upper secondary school, when examination results determine the upper secondary school that students will enter. The pressures that students applying to universities face have been well publicized, as have the supplementary schools (juku) that many Japanese students attend to study for the examinations. In recent years, because of a dramatically declining population, Japanese students have not had a problem gaining admission into higher education institutions. However, competition for admission to the most prestigious universities remains severe because graduates of these universities usually fill the top jobs in government and industry (csun.edu).

Reference

Educational Leadership. (2006). Retrieved from http://www.csun.edu/~krowlands/Content/SED610/NCLB/NCLB%20from%202007/Assessment%20Around%20the%20World.pdf


Comments

  1. Demetrice LevinsJune 17, 2018 at 8:00 AM

    Hello Yolanda,

    I agree that standardized tests only measure a child's skill level as it pertains to a subject. As Berger (2016) mentions in the text, humans have multiple intelligences. Schools usually only measure academic intelligence and not wisdom. It is wisdom that is greatly necessary for success in adulthood. Yes, having resilience is a part of wisdom. After all, it is shown that some children diagnosed with learning disorders "may function adequately as adults"(Berger, 2016,p.369).

    Reference
    Berger, K.S. (2016). The developing person through childhood (7th ed.). New York, NY: Worth
    Publishers.

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  2. The Wonderful World of TeachingJune 17, 2018 at 6:52 PM

    Yolanda, I think that assessing the whole child is important because children need to recognize and manage emotions, care about others, make good decisions, behave ethically and responsibly, develop positive relationships, and avoid negative behaviors.

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  3. Tracey MercerJune 17, 2018 at 7:16 PM

    Hi Yolanda,
    I think that standardized testing is good but I also feel that it should be done throughout the year not towards the end of the year because some children have the tendency to get stress and some don't think they will make there grade. If you have strong family support system a child can accomplish anything that they want to.

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  4. The Wonderful World of TeachingJune 30, 2018 at 3:41 AM

    Yolanda, I enjoyed communicating with you about child development. We have learned a tremendous amount of information while being in class together. I hope you have success in the rest of your education classes at Walden University.

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