IQ and school achievement tests like LEAP

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(Actually what are teachers judged on?)

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I’m not a teacher but I keep up with it in the news. From what I can tell they’re judged on not sleeping with or fighting their students and avoiding coming to work drunk/high.

Teachers/schools are actually judged more on improving than anything else.

While it is a correct assumption that LEAP scores can be “maxed out” so to speak, what is more important is that the student moves for example from an “approaching basic” to a “basic” or something along those lines.

Teachers are judged more by their administrators than the LEAP as the scores are usually not in for the end of year evaluations.


IQ means doodlie doo in schools.

Proven that an IQ of 120 can accomplish any thing. Anything above that is superfluous

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IQ means doodlie doo in schools.

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Yeah, dumb asses can do algebra and read as well as functional children.

IQ is very important in academic achievement.

Teachers with the classrooms with bad demographics are screwed.

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Proven that an IQ of 120 can accomplish any thing. Anything above that is superfluous

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A 120 will go bankrupt before a higher IQ. IQ more closely correlates with not failing than it does "success".

I put "success" in quotes because morons think success is money. 100 million 100 IQs will play the lottery and when one wins by risk/chance, morons will say "see he has an IQ of 100 and is successful"

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Yeah, dumb asses can do algebra and read as well as functional children.

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There are plenty of other assessments that can measure a students ability in particular subjects.

As an experienced teacher, I can honestly say I’ve never seen an IQ score or even heard it mentioned in the HUNDREDS of IEPs, classes, meetings, symposiums, workshops, etc. that I’ve attended.

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Is IQ a reliable enough measure that it should be paired with tests like LEAP?

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Well IQ tests are reliable and valid, but until about 2nd grade, IQ isn’t very stable, and even they account for about 50% achievement. And the most reliable and valid IQ tests are individually administered, and therefore take significant time to administer and score. And it would be questionable to give them one time, and not consider the error that they do have. And it’s even more questionable ethically.

In other words, it’s unreasonable to measure and use IQ as a control, and achievement scores should be measured and evaluated using years of data, to establish a value-added type score, which would make the IQ scores even less useful.

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As an experienced teacher, I can honestly say I’ve never seen an IQ score or even heard it mentioned in the HUNDREDS of IEPs, classes, meetings, symposiums, workshops, etc. that I’ve attended.

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Because "IQ" has been labeled as racist or against the "growth mindset" or the concept of "multiple intelligences". The SPED coordinators use what are IQ tests to determine both the intellectually disabled and gifted. Everyone else is mainstream which is assumed to be 68% of the population.

And Teachers would probably stop trying so hard if they knew the truth.

Your military fate was probably determined by your IQ.