Intelligence Testing.docx MTE/511 Intelligence Testing University of Phoenix MTE/511 Intelligence Testing in School Letter 1976 Wildman Rd. Antioch, CA 94561 The Daily Ledger 1768 G. St. Antioch, CA 94509 De
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Intelligence Testing.docx MTE/511 Intelligence Testing University of Phoenix MTE/511 Intelligence Testing in School Letter 1976 Wildman Rd. Antioch, CA 94561 The Daily Ledger 1768 G. St. Antioch, CA 94509 Dear Editor in Chief, In last week™s edition of the The Daily Ledger, a section in your paper struck an interest in me regarding intelligence testing in schools. I thought that the article could be portrayed as a biased and uneducated in opinion. It seemed that there was just not enough evidence to back your opinion on the matter. The idea of human intelligence has been changed and altered constantly over the last 150 to 200 years. Noted psychologist Alfred Binet created a series of I.Q tests when he was commissioned by the French Government. With help from Theodore Simon, they developed the Binet-Simon Scale which is still periodically used even today. (Cherry, 2020). This was important because the test was used to be able to track the I.Q number of each student who took it, showing how smart a student is. While this is a standard, I feel it does not help schools as a general test and just stands out to place students against each other. However, I feel that the right type of test to use is one that is a fair assessment of everyone, this type of intelligence testing is called the Stanford-Binet test, which is an update of sorts from the original. Why this is important is because these tests were made to help figure out what deficits there were academically in each student. Even thou. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .
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