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Usefulness of IQ tests
Hello
I'm new to Newsgroups but what I've seen so far is pretty impressive. Just a comment on the validity or otherwisew of IQ tests. As other contributors have stated, IQ tests are not necessarily an indicator of future success. But they are useful in that they can give some idea of a person's mental abilities and potential and this can be a guide for the teacher when devising learning programmes and also the style of teaching. As a former teacher of maths I am aware of the fact that students learn in different ways. Liam Hudson has written books detailing the concepts of 'Divergent' and 'Convergent' thinking. A convergent thinker would probably have the potential to be a good math student but a divergent thinker less so. Who is to say that a convergent thinker is superior to a divergent thinker? (A divergent thinker is likely to be more creative than than a convergent thinker. A divergent thinker could probably write a longer list than a convergent thinker if asked to write down as many uses as possible for a brick!) Conventional IQ tests tend to be heavily biased towards convergent thinking styles thus the divergent thinker is automatically at a disadvantage with such tests. John P |
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