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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It wasn't a legitimate IQ test. There aren't many that can be group administered, the teacher would have to be a licensed or credentialed psychologist, they aren't free, and parents would have to give consent/be notified.

Your child took an approximation of an IQ test for fun, which is completely appropriate for an AP psych class.

-Signed School Psychologist[/quote]

This.

The teacher should have explained this (or did?) so that the students would understand that the results of this sort of test in that environment are not reliable.

Also, sharing results of such an assessment at school where scores will be known to other kids is not appropriate, esp without the context given above.

It has nothing to do with not wanting the kid to know their IQ. It’s simply not reliable.
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This is my problem with the activity. If the teacher didn't explain that the "IQ test" (heavy emphasis on the quotation marks) the students took isn't a reliable or valid measure of intelligence (and it sounds like she didn't, if OP's daughter came home talking about her "superior intelligence") then she is a crappy teacher who shouldn't be teaching AP Psychology. [/quote]

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