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Won't tests at least show if those basic skills (e.g. ability to read the alphabet) are present or not?
by true_religion 12y ago
Won't tests at least show if those basic skills (e.g. ability to read the alphabet) are present or not?
- watwut 12y agoYou can test whether the kid is mature enough to start the school and it makes perfect sense. E.g. fine motor skills, ability to listen to instructions, attention span, ability to split words into letter requires some center to be developed enough too, etc. If the kid is lacking in some too much, it makes sense to delay him a year. It does not mean the kid will be stupid, speed of development has little relation to "final" intelligence. Ability to read the alphabet (or any other set of memorized facts) at that age has very little relation to how the kid will be able to do two years later.
- dagw 12y agoIf teacher has no idea if a kid in her class knows the alphabet or not without the kid taking a formal written test, then that is a terrible teacher who should be fired. And more importantly all you'll really be testing is how the kid copes with the stress of formal testing, not what the kid actually knows.