During World War II, Harvard professor, Robert Yerkes persuaded the army to let him test the IQs of two million recruits. With that data, Carl Bridgham created his own version of the test, for applicants for a scholarship for a college in New York City. Years later, colleges and universities started to require SAT scores to apply. Today, juniors and seniors around the world take this test without question. Standardize testing has become such a customary, that children as young as kindergarteners are taking Common core tests. The SAT was not created to assess one’s academic level, but to determine one’s IQ. Some might argue that the questions have changed to indicate education, but if this test wasn’t created in the first place, then would we have a test like this
During World War II, Harvard professor, Robert Yerkes persuaded the army to let him test the IQs of two million recruits. With that data, Carl Bridgham created his own version of the test, for applicants for a scholarship for a college in New York City. Years later, colleges and universities started to require SAT scores to apply. Today, juniors and seniors around the world take this test without question. Standardize testing has become such a customary, that children as young as kindergarteners are taking Common core tests. The SAT was not created to assess one’s academic level, but to determine one’s IQ. Some might argue that the questions have changed to indicate education, but if this test wasn’t created in the first place, then would we have a test like this