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I couldn't agree more, you should not put people into boxes, especially not according to artificial measures like IQ tests. What you should do is design the ed
by auggierose 13y ago
I couldn't agree more, you should not put people into boxes, especially not according to artificial measures like IQ tests.
What you should do is design the education system in a way such that more variance is possible, so that especially gifted students get the stimulation they need. In the paper the argument is put forward, that a "good school" improves the average performance of students, but also increases the variance between performances.
- jiggy2011 13y agoBut how do you decide which students are gifted without some way to measure general intellectual aptitude which is the purpose of an IQ test.
- auggierose 13y agoIdeally you don't decide anything. You just give them the tools, and see what they do with it.
- jiggy2011 13y agoBut how do you know what to teach and grade students on?
- auggierose 13y agoI could imagine that something not unsimilar to how optimization algorithms work. You start with all student doing the same material, and then you supply the students with the amount and kind of material that suits them. Ideally, you don't grade at all.
- jiggy2011 13y agoHow do you decide which material suits which students the best? What they enjoy the most? If you have a class of 20 , how can you teach 20 different curriculum?
- auggierose 13y agoThat's where computerised tools come in. You can give the students tasks to do, the computer supervises how these tasks are completed, and suggests new tasks to do depending on how previous tasks were handled. The task of the teacher would then be that of a supervisor rather than that of an instructor.