<p>Just a little anecdote to go along with BlackRose…</p>
<p>My mother taught kindergarten for 40 years. She told me about some tests her kids had to take in the 60’s or so. Matching items. On the left, there’d be a picture of a duck. On the right, the child would have to select what “goes” with the duck. The selections could be a house, a tree and a lake. Kids who had no exposure to ducks would not know to select the lake. This didn’t mean they were not intelligent. It meant they were not exposed to ducks.</p>
<p>However, the results of test put the children in a remedial groups. This is not a racist outcome, but, at least in her case, it was socio-economic and probably cultured based. The child is now labeled because of the reults of the test.</p>
<p>I think some assumptions are that are made are not one size fits all. And that is a problem iwth standardized tests.</p>