Testing for Intelligence?

I personally believe that children today are being overly assessed due to the demands of a changing world; however, all this assessing has been misdiagnosed many children. Placing labels on children allows others to judge and isolate them which aids in a child thinking he is different or not as smart as the next child. In early childhood, I think the physical and mental development of a child should be assessed because it provides the parents and teachers the information they need to help that particular child later on. If the physical and mental development is assessed early enough, the child may have a chance to get tested and treated which can assist the child in his or her learning capabilities to be successful in school.  

In Jamaica, many researchers conduct literacy tests on the elementary and high schools students and study the students during the course of their school years. To date, the students are assessed to understand why one group of privileged children are reading at the country level and the underprivileged are not reading at the country level. Most of the researchers believed that the socioeconomic status affects the learning capabilities of the Jamaican children. In this particular case, I understanding assessing those children because if one group is not doing well, it is important to find out the reasons (Lewis, 2010). 










Reference

Lewis, Yewande Eleene. (2010). Literacy in elementary school in Jamaica: the case
of the grade four literacy test. Retrieved from http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1883&context=etd.