They aren’t IQ tests (or any actual test of intelligence), they are an indicator of whether or not students perform a task at the same level as historical or cross sectional groups as a proxy for aptitude. This is the same way BMI is a proxy for body composition.
Neither are great models, but they are useful for describing a population based on just a little information.
In both situations, sometimes you don’t fit the mold because youre an edge case… and sometimes you’re actually just on one of the special side parts of the bell curve.
Nope. Written tests that require studying is generally just memorization. Sure some kids can process and understand it, but others like myself can’t store information the same way, so we would just memorize it long enough to write the test, and forget how to do it a week later.
Standardized testing doesn’t actually test what a student learns or knows. It tests bullshit you can regurgitate.
Which acts as a statistical… standard.
They aren’t IQ tests (or any actual test of intelligence), they are an indicator of whether or not students perform a task at the same level as historical or cross sectional groups as a proxy for aptitude. This is the same way BMI is a proxy for body composition.
Neither are great models, but they are useful for describing a population based on just a little information.
In both situations, sometimes you don’t fit the mold because youre an edge case… and sometimes you’re actually just on one of the special side parts of the bell curve.
Yeah !
But then again nay. Depends a whole lot on the tests and the grading effort.
Nope. Written tests that require studying is generally just memorization. Sure some kids can process and understand it, but others like myself can’t store information the same way, so we would just memorize it long enough to write the test, and forget how to do it a week later.