College Entrance Exams in 2024: Measures of Aptitude or Learned Knowledge and Skills?
[based on Dr. Yo’s original post from March 2019] For nearly half a century, I have regularly hosted lively debates in my head about which side of the intelligence spectrum standardized tests reward more: students on the natural, seemingly intuitive smarts side or those whose intelligence derives from knowledge and skills acquired through education. Or to frame it slightly differently, do standardized tests ultimately reward kids who grow up reading and playing with numbers by natural propensity and choice or are otherwise “gifted” in verbal/linguistic and mathematical/logical intelligences, or can students compensate for what they may lack in neural/cognitive firepower […]
