Week 6 Testing for Intelligence

Assesments

            When children take a assessments it put a stress with the teachers, parents, and the

children. Assessment can be challenging for children. Assessment can be challenge for

young children that takes time to administer assessments probably. Assessments primarily should

be administered in a one-on-one setting to each child by his or her teacher. In addition, a child’s

attention span is often very short and the assessment should therefore be administered in short

segments over a period of a few days or even weeks. There are differing opinions about the value

of using standardized tests to assess the abilities and knowledge of young children. Research

with young children standardized tests for student grade placement of school retention can to

be harmful to children’s ultimate achievements.

            High quality assessment results can help shape school policy, lead to improvements in

teacher performance, and determine factors that may affect learning such as health care, child

care, and preschool services. To assure children receive needed services, direct measures are

needed to track children’s early learning.

            In South Korea children assessment is a system of diagnostic assessments called the

National Assessment of Educational Achievement. Each year, achievement tests in two

subjects are administered to all students in each of the grade six, nine, and ten. These

tests serve a purely informational purpose and are not reported by individual student. Students

are also regularly assessed by their teachers at all levels, and they receive “Student School

Records” or “Student Activity Records” which provide detailed information about their

academic performance. These records include information on academic achievement by subject,

attendance, extra-curricular and service involvement, special accomplishment, conduct and

moral development, physical development, details of awards and anecdotal performance

descriptions. These records are increasingly used as measures of student performance for

admission at both senior secondary and university level, in order to alleviate the examination-

based pressure felt by many South Korean students. These are the assessments that are done in

South Korean.