IQ

Check out the Wonderlic website - www.wonderlic.com Wonderlic tests are used across the board by companies, large and small, during the pre-employment process. Wonderlic assessments are a proven way for a company to cut down on turnover costs, and hire betting fitting employees.

Answer The "Wonderlic" used to test major league football players is more specifically known as the Wonderlic Personnel Test, or WPT. The WPT is a brief test of general intelligence, the scores of which can easily be converted to IQ scores using a formula.

Years of experience and social sciences research have shown that general intelligence, increasingly referred to as "g" by researchers, is the best single predictor of success in a job or in school (this does not justify using only a single test to make important hiring or acceptance decisions; see below). The predictive usefulness of general intelligence is the fundamental rationale for using the WPT as a pre-employment test in a great variety of occupations, ranging from pro football player to bank teller, police officer, engineering technician, or real estate sales agent.

Although useful, WPT is not the most accurate or comprehensive intelligence test. For example, the Wonderlic isn't an effective test for identifying or distinguishing gradations among very intelligent, or very deficient, people. For occupations associated with superior intelligence, such as lawyer, physician, engineer, or chemist, intelligence tests having higher ceilings can help distinguish between the brilliant and the merely bright. Examples of such tests are versions of the Stanford-Binet, Woodcock-Johnson, Wechsler, and Ravens Advanced. All of these must be administered by trained psychologists.

The WPT is better when used to create broad categories, such as above average, average, and below average; or "probably qualified" and "probably not qualified". Since the WPT has arguably been taken by more people than any other intelligence test used for pre-employment screening (Wonderlic scores can also be used for admission into Mensa and other high-iq groups), it has amassed considerable predictive validity. The WPT is also inexpensive and easily administered, even online.

Although intelligence tests have demonstrated utility and scientific validity in recruiting and screening potential employees, they must be used lawfully, carefully and with judgement. The most important rule is not to rely on intelligence tests, in and of themselves, in the decision to accept or reject someone. This is, by the way, a good rule to follow when using such tests in other ways, such as admitting people to graduate school, deciding who will be moved into a gifted education program, or who needs cognitive rehabilitation after suffering a stroke.

Not necessarily. In fact, this is a very controversial subject. Many people (both educators and parents) do believe that grades are the best way to assess if a student has mastered the course material; but others are not so sure. Since grades are usually determined by tests (whether assessments or exams, or even course work), these measurement tools do not always factor in that some students have test anxiety, or learning disabilities that make it difficult for them to score well on tests, or come from an impoverished background where they lack the most up-to-date learning aides like computers. Also, like anyone, a student might have a bad day and get a poor grade on an exam, even if they did know the material. Of course, there needs to be a way to decide how well students are doing. Many educators have come to believe that tests are one way to measure a student's intelligence, but they are not the only way.

If you are asking about IQ tests specifically, those too are controversial. Many critics believe these tests are biased towards upper-middle and upper-class kids. It is well-documented that children are affected by their environment, especially in the formative years. If they come from homes where the parents are not able to speak English well, or homes where poverty prevents the parents from access to books and computers, the child may not come to school with a good enough vocabulary or reading skills; poor children often get lower scores on tests, including IQ tests. Here too, the need to determine a child's intelligence is certainly understandable, but many kids are grouped into lower-level classes through no fault of their own, rather than because they are not intelligent.

Yes.

That is assuming that the intent behind the use of the adjectives 'above & average' is not to describe something as being possessive of both properties individually. The combination of these words by way of a Hyphen (-) creates a new and entirely separate descriptive word, or adjective, from the lone standing, original two.

Because written word, especially that of the English language, requires a certain level of context for the reader to grasp the intent of the message, adjectives must be clearly defined within the sentence structure as to which noun they are modifying. Failure to maintain such context results in a situation in which the adjective(s) and their corresponding nouns involved are not clearly defined, therefore distorting the writer's message. This is where the term 'misplaced modifier' is used to describe the unclear or impossible situation that results. For example: My friend Billy with a new car gave me a new hammer. Now, did Billy give me the hammer? Or did his new car decide to get me the gift? Obviously it was Billy, yet in reading the sentence as is it's Billy's new car which is made out to be our kind benefactor. The rules of grammar are designed to eliminate such confusion. Grammar is also always good for painfully burning about an hour of each grade school kid's day with boredom.

Think of grammar as the legend on a map. The legend is used to assist us in navigating the map by explaining the unique specifications inherent to deciphering that specific map. The same can be said of the grammatical break down of a sentence. Only in reading and writing we have the added luxury of the universal legend that is English law, or grammar.