This video demonstrates one of the concerns of IQ testing in classrooms. If a child has a “false negative” as the video called it, this score should not determine the students success through the rest of their school careers. In class we discussed how the score shows how that student did on that test on that particular day. If the student was having a bad day and didn’t perform as well as they might have on another day, this leads to a false negative situation. That is why this score should not be used to tell us as educators everything about the child. IQ scores should be used carefully in classrooms, and teachers need to keep in mind false negatives.
The beginning of this video talks about one of the myths of IQ testing that we discussed in class. This myth was that IQ scores don’t change. In this video she talks about how IQ test scores can change, especially when testing young children. This shows that we cannot completely depend on the IQ scores and as teachers should not use these scores to determine how the student will do in the rest of their academic careers.
This being said, teachers also need to keep in mind to be wise consumers of information. We always need to keep in mind that one study is not the definitive study on the subject.
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