Pros And Cons Of Standardized Intelligence Testing

Standardized Intelligence has been a monumental breakthrough in Psychology. This instrument of psychology has been one of the most practiced inventions in the field. Alfred Binet is considered the father of standardized intelligence testing. In the early 1900’s, he conducted these tests on young children to identify learning disabilities. It has assisted the U.S. military place new recruits in their positions with the ASVAB, and since the SAT was enacted in 1926, millions of aptitude tests have been created to help schools maximize their student’s potential.
Although intelligence have shaped the educational choices of millions of students in the U.S., it has been accused of discrimination based on race, gender, class, and culture. This has
This has been done by updating several forms of intelligence testing, such as the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children and the Stanford-Binet
Intelligence Scale, so that they better reflect the intelligence of children and students from more diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. They have tried to develop more advanced and fair ways to interpret and determine the scores of these tests. Other intelligence tests such as the
Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children, the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Ability, and the Differential Ability Scales and the Cognitive Assessment System have also been created, and serve to expand the field of knowledge beyond traditional standardized intelligence testing. Even with the creation of these new and unorthodox tests, there is still a considerable gap between the ideas and the tests that have been created in the last 20 years, and the way these tests are actually utilized.
Considering all the tests that have been created to test intelligence, there is still one test that is utilized more among all the others. This test is the WISC-III, the third revision of psychologist
David Wechsler's classic 1949 test for children. While the researchers behind these tests