Do school guidance counselors have aptitude test?

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I'm still an aquarius and have been bopping around.

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Why give a test when there is just so much more useful information derived from astrology signs?

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I thought schools weren't allowed to give tests anymore because it hurt people's feelings?

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Well I don't know where you're getting your information.

One of the issues surrounding education is the push for so much testing.

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It would be considered racist. That's the only reason IQ tests are not more prominent

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Actually a major reason they aren't more prominent is that given what the measure (innate ability) and the length of an administration, they don't provide enough information on what to do.

There is a lot of debate regarding an aptitude-treatment interaction, but it's so difficult to study that the result of been inconclusive. I think it exists, but I'm not sure if it's feasible.

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There is a lot of debate regarding an aptitude-treatment interaction

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Its worth getting in depth with, just considering the inner city kids who need to be told that they are good at something. You're Better Than Thug!

I don't know. Maybe I'm racist thinking about the inner city black kids, maybe I should be concerned with the country white teen mama meth epidemic, it does look bad.

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Start with a list of every job ever, for right now.
Add qualities need for these jobs.
Make sure students know these options.
Some are blue/dirty jobs. They pay well, and dirty hands make clean money.

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Make it user submitted content. They'll fill that grid up for you.

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G, as you know, is correlated with ability across fields. It could be used to identify a range or limit of things to do

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Of course, and Gc and Gf (math; engineering) could provide some specificity.

The problem isn't in the predictive validity of G, as that's long been established; the problem is using that information to provide specific recommendations and plans that will maximize an individual's ability, whatever it may be.

Your contention seems to stem from the lack of perfection in predictive capabilities of IQ tests. Would IQ tests allow us to better guide children? I think the answer is undoubtedly yes.

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Wouldn't an intensive aptitude summary be a good way to guide young people into areas they would have never explored? Particularly inner city youts?

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I spent half a day in high school taking an aptitude test in the guidance counselors office. It indicated that the best career fit for my main attributes was accounting. Off all the college classes I have taken in my life there is no subject I detest more than accounting. Fortunately I pursued what I knew I was interested in regardless of the test indication.

That's what I thought. I know I took one. Assumed they still do, maybe not though.