The correlation between intelligence tests and teacher designed tests in 7th grade

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between intelligence tests and tests designed by teachers. Tests were made for five subjects, Japanese, Social studies, Math, Science and English. These were given to 351 junior high school students (173 male, 178 female) along with an intelligence test divided into Type A and Type B components. The main results are as follows: 1) Scores from teacher-made tests were more closely related to deviation scores of type A intelligence tests than those of type B. However, test scores of two subjects, Math and Science, showed high correlation to type B intelligence tests' deviation score for males. 2) The indices of creative thinking in the intelligence test, Flexibility and Fluency, showed low correlation to scores on the teacher-made tests. Furthermore, of all the indices of the intelligence test, Cognition was consistently high in correlation for females. 3) Using cluster analysis to examine the results in each subject of the teacher-made test, male students could be divided into two categories, those good at humanities and those good at natural sciences. However, it was impossible to discern this difference among females.