<p>What if, instead of (or perhaps to augment) SAT scores, IQ tests became a standarized test from which colleges based admissions decisions from? Or are SATs and ACTs really just glorified IQ tests?</p>
<p>A majority of the problems would stay the same, we would just be attacking a different test.</p>
<p>well the name is differnt and acording to princton review writers for the ACT the SAT is stupid</p>
<p>A real IQ test is individually administered, so that would be very impractical.</p>
<p>The IQ is just not standardized enough. Different tests have different scales.</p>
<p>what about a standarized IQ test? Or does that just amount to an ACT/SAT?</p>
<p>Of course IQ tests are standardized. They are normed on thousands and thousands of people.</p>
<p>And they're not necessarily individually administered.</p>
<p>The accurate ones are.</p>
<p>No they are not all scaled the same. For example the Cattell Culture Fair has higher scores than the Stanford-Binet. Do your research before you post.</p>
<p>Post #10 is correct. IQ tests are even more controversial than SAT's & ACT's, if that's possible. Less standardized, & there are criticisms that the various ones measure different abilities, & test them differently.</p>
<p>Also, the concept of "intelligence," including what is supposedly measurable is in a fluid state of research right now -- from both the educator's and the psychologist's point of view. The general view is that IQ is more complex & less understood than once believed, and on which some of the current tests are still based.</p>
<p>Other normative measures have been proposed, though, such as a core national curriculum and corresponding national content testing, more in depth than the SAT II's.</p>
<p>Although helpful in some instances, iq tests just measure raw intelligence, thats it. SAT, while somewhat flawed, measures factors that are much better indicators of college success, like ability to absorb knowledge and retain it, while being a better indicator of work ethic. I can't tell you how many highly intelligent people that I've seen that get straight f's/d's simply because they don't care about school, or they lack the will to do work, worse of all, they're ego gets to them. So while the SAT might be favorable to less intelligent people, they indicate people who will truely exceed in college, not just those who have the ability to suceed</p>
<p>simpson, the research supports success as predictable for only college freshman year. After freshman year, the value of SAT as a predictor disappears. That is the conclusion of the colleges themselves.</p>
<p>right, SAT is still shaky, but I do think it is better suited than an IQ test, what do you think?</p>
<p>SAT = tests how well you can take & prepare for a test
IQ = tells you how much intellectual capacity you have</p>
<p>i don't know which is the lesser of two evils.</p>
<p>someone could be a really bad student but still be technically intelligent, thus recieving a high score on an IQ test. however, a bad student would not put as the time and effort as (i think) most people do to prepare for the SAT. therefore, the SAT does test a skill necessary for college. the IQ -- not so much</p>
<p>i think elementary school kids should be required to take an IQ test though
putting the smarter kids together could help the lazy stragglers feel pressured to learn.</p>
<p>In my elementary school, some kids (myself included) were selected to take an IQ test, and if we scored high enough, we were allowed into the GATE (Gifted and Talented Education) program.</p>
<p>The earliest you could get tested was 2nd grade, and you could get tested in 3rd, 4th, or 5th, if your teacher thought you should be. The kids who made it in with me when I was in 2nd grade (there were about 10 of us, which was an unusually high number), well, a lot of them aren't so bright now. I hated GATE a lot of the time, because I was always the slowest to catch on and never understood things- now most of them are in lower level classes, and I'm valedictorian.</p>
<p>So who's to say how these things work?</p>
<p>Besides, not all of us study for the SAT. I didn't, and I got a 2260 after taking it once. My boyfriend did the same and got a 2180 or somesuch. So again, who's to say?</p>