Tuesday, January 13, 2009

January 13: Test Bias/Multiple Intelligences

Class Activities:

1) Neuron Note. You wrote a new question or comment for the reading and read the answers. Keep up your reading!

2) Announcements.
Lunch today we will review of chapter 11 vocabulary and Ch. 11 Test on Thursday.

3) Pop Quiz. If you were gone, plan to take it after Thursday's test.

4) Another MENSA test. Is this a better measure of intelligence?


5) Chitling Test. You took this IQ test to start our discussion on cultural bias in IQ testing. This test was put together by Adrian Dove, a black sociologist, to challenge the IQ tests of the 1960s and 1970s.

6) Class discussion of Test Bias.

7) Multiple Intelligences. You looked at Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences and we discussed this theory. Your homework is to read the two sides on this controversial topic.


Assignments:

1) Finish Chapter 11

2) Chapter 11 Test in on Thursday.

3) Taking Sides article and handout is due on Tuesday, 1/20

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