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Low rating for IQ tests
Nursery World,
29 November 2001
By Allison Hedley, a nursery nurse and first-year Early Childhood Studies degree student at Sunderland University The term 'intelligence' implies the ability to form concepts, reason abstractly, and notice complex patterns and behaviour. Intelligence Quotient (IQ) tests were devised in 1913 and used to screen out 'educationally subnormal' children. It would appear the reason for IQ tests to diagnose young children as having special needs remains the same today; only the terminology differs.
By Allison Hedley, a nursery nurse and first-year Early Childhood Studies degree student at Sunderland University The term 'intelligence' implies the ability to form concepts, reason abstractly,...
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