A Note on Educators and Reasoning

*Circa 23:28:23 26 set 2024

Educators who give exams on topics, questions, or skills not taught or previously prepared for in class, but which they intend to have their students reason through based on fundamental skills, are testing fluid reasoning ability and testing for fluid intelligence. They are likely inadvertently administering partial IQ tests in some sense. This practice should be re-evaluated if IQ testing is not the intended activity for a classroom's setting.