Testing for Intelligence

I do not agree with giving children standardized test just to see if they understand what they have been learning all year long. I feel like some children do not work good under pressure and some just do not like testing. There should be other ways to asses children. It should be made fun and interesting for them.

Germany

"Germany has a highly stratified education system that tracks students, generally beginning in grade 5, into three types of schools: the Gymnasium, which provides an academic, university-track education; the Realschule, which provides a general and vocational/technical education and occasionally permits transfer to a Gymnasium; and the

Hauptschule, which provides a lower-level general and vocational education that often leads to unemployment. Teachers and parents—not an examination—determine a child's placement. Because socioeconomic status highly correlates with academic achievement, affluent students are disproportionately represented in the Gymnasium, whereas the children of migrant workers are often tracked into the Hauptschule. The 2003 Program for International Assessment (PISA) study showed that the performance of German students correlates more highly with socioeconomic status than does the performance of students from almost any other country, suggesting that Germany's tracking system magnifies the effects of socioeconomic status (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004). Students attending the Gymnasium through grade 13 receive a school-leaving certificate called the Abitur, which fewer than one-quarter of German students receive. The Abitur provides access to universities after students pass a final examination" (neqmap.unescobkk.org). 

 http://neqmap.unescobkk.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Assessment-Around-the-World.pdf