Chapter 4: Intelligence

Chapter 4: Intelligence

While I was reading about intelligence research and the testing done on many groups of people through the centuries, I feel like they should be administered to everyone. Growing up as a child, I was never given a test to measure my intelligence or how advanced or behind I was. I feel like if everyone takes an intelligence test, it can show the room for improvement in all areas. It can measure our strengths and weaknesses, show a teacher which areas that need to be improved, and it gives you a sense of self that you can take with you as you go through school and college, knowing where you struggle the most and how you can gain knowledge by knowing how you learn and what needs to be improved.

I think IQ testing and mental age testing are important in the school setting. Low scores do not change who you are as a person, and I think if they were administered and understood better, then it could be an open discussion with your students, and then everyone would be better equipped to know how to help that child learn his own way.  I would put that into effect in my classroom, if I could, and use it as a teaching moment to help kids understand their strengths, and not point out their weaknesses. As a teacher, I believe it is very important to administer tests that can gadge a child's means of learning. How you can help them and what you can do to improve their capacity to acquire skills.



What I learned in this chapter was that intelligence can be measured, but capacity to learn is endless. Your fluid and crystallized knowledge may decline or improve, but the important thing is that you never give up on yourself and you are always striving to learn and grow as a person and gain knowledge in what you do not already know.Binet Simon was the first to develop intelligence testing and that has what has led to out IQ testing today. Although the testing now is much more advanced than it was back when it was developed.