What are some criticisms of the measurement of academic ability?

What will be an ideal response?


Some issues surrounding the measurement of academic ability include the following:
• Have been misused and misinterpreted in the past. 
• Fairness has been questioned. 
• Definitions of intelligence vary. Most intelligence assessments measure academic aptitude and fail to include items that assess practical problem-solving abilities. 
• May lead to an underestimation of what students can do. Students may be unfairly labeled. Low scores may lead teachers to believe that students cannot achieve.
• Cut off from one source of learning-reading-struggling readers may have lowered scores, especially in crystallized intelligence.

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