Contest: The Debate (Week 48); IS STANDARDIZED TESTING A FAIR MEASURE OF INTELLIGENCE?

I welcome you guys to my blog; how are you all doing? I am so happy to participate in a contest titled IS STANDARDIZED TESTING A FAIR MEASURE OF INTELLIGENCE? And I want to thank @ sahmie for this wonderful contest.

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Do you think everyone has the same chance to do well on standardized tests? Why or why not?

I don't think everyone has the same chance to do well on standardized tests because people's intelligence differs, so everyone must not get a high score or do well.
You will see a class of 40, then after a test is been carried out, you will find out that only 30 or 20 did well.
Does it mean that the remaining 10 students were not in the class when the lesson was going on? The answer is no, but all fingers can never be equal, no matter how the other students study their books. There are still some people who will not do well.

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How do you think a student's background or environment affects their test scores?

Background or environment can affect the students in so many ways; if a student is living in a public compound, and he or she has a test to write the following day, and the compound is always making noise, how will the students read in a noisy environment? And if the students did not read, how would the person score very well on the test?

An unconducive environment is another factor that can make a student not to score well in the tests; when a student is living in an environment that is not conducive, the person will find it very difficult to read or do the necessary things that will make he or she to do well in the tests.

Before someone will perform well on tests or do well in anything concerning school, the person must live in an environment where the person is very comfortable, and the temperature must also be good.

Another environmental factor that affects students' scores is the lack of electricity; when there is no light for the students to use and study their books for their test, you will see the students scoring very low because the person did not read his or her books due to lack of electricity.

So, I think background and environment affect students' scores very well.

Are there other ways to measure intelligence besides standardized tests? What are they?

There are other ways to measure intelligence, some of them include the following

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1: Asking the students questions in the class to know the ones who can get them correctly and the ones who can not answer them.
This is another strong measure that you can use to measure students' intelligence.

2: giving them homework, through homework, you can be able to know the one that is more intelligent because some students will always go and do some research whenever they are given homework, and in the process of doing this, the person will be getting more information.

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Do you believe that test anxiety can impact a student's performance? How so?

Anxiety can cause students to score very poorly on a test; anxiety can cause a disorder in students, which can make the person find it very difficult to study or read for exams or tests.

You will see a student that will not like calculation subject because the anxiety is already there, and this will make the students do very poorly in any subject that involves calculation because that fear is already there.

*Can intelligence be defined in different ways, and how does that relate to standardized testing?"

Intelligence can be defined in so many ways, so you must not say that the only student who is intelligent does well on tests. Because some students can not write anything when the test is given to them. But that doesn't mean that they don't know what they are doing, but because they don't know how to put it down into writing, some of the students prefer it when their teacher asks them questions orally.

Some people are good at writing, and some are good at answering questions in class, so you can see that intelligence is of different types.

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Finally, I wish to invite @simonnwigwe, @josepha, and @bonaventure24 to also share their entry in this contest if they haven't done that already.