>>14034497The problem is that sociologists, school psychologists, special ed professionals, and public policy think tanks fundamentally misunderstand skill assessment and learning.
I'm a behaviorist who doesn't really believe in mental constructs but even I find IQ scores quite helpful. Some of the newer tests are slick and let you identify a kid's learning barriers.
It's too bad educational professionals only care about IQ if it gets a kid funding for special ed.
A 7 year old black kid with an IQ of 85 who hasn't mastered the last two years of curriculum is often SOL. Education professionals will rationalize dumb educational tactics and discounting IQ like this,
>He only scored so low on the IQ test because of cultural factors. Yeah, cultural factors linked to academic success and the ability to pass professional certification tests in later life.
>We will put him in remedial classes to help him catch up....Where the pace of learning is the same instead of 2x-4x more intensive. How is he supposed to catch up when his rate of learning doesn't accelerate?
>We will do weekly 1hr sessions in the areas he is weakest for the entire school year to support himThis will be done instead of an intensive approach where he gets a cluster of multi-hour intensive sessions over 1-2 weeks followed by brief, periodic maintenance sessions. You see, the school/teachers union has to justify their jobs so a more efficient approach based in the principles of learning isn't acceptable.
The original purpose of IQ test was to do apples to apples comparisons between students in the same curriculum. This comparison is what the educational complex fears the most regardless of how much they talk about evidence based education.
