New student IQ test being developed, to launch in 2020

By The Nation

 

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The Mental Health Department is developing a new Intelligence Quotient (IQ) testing quiz for children aged 2-15 and will roll it out nationwide in late 2010.

 

The new quiz is being designed to be relevant to the Thailand 4.0 era and to be conveniently used by teachers and public health officials nationwide so that children with lower IQ scores could be swiftly provided with aid.

 

This June, a Prathom 1 students nationwide will have their IQ tested, with results released in August, said department director general Dr Boonreung Traireungworawat.

 

The agency is aiming to raise IQ scores for Thailand’s Grade 1 students to 100 points and beyond, in line with their international peers, said Boonreung. In 2016, IQ testing of 23,641 Prathom 1 pupils nationwide found an average score of 98.23 points, a slight increase from the 94.58 score from the previous testing in 2011.

 

An estimated 37.61 per cent of Prathom 1 students or about 300,000 children had the IQ scores below the mean of 90 points - beyond the 25 per cent or less recommended by the World Health Organisation, Boonreung said.

 

Among the low-IQ scorers, 5.8 per cent obtained scores under 70 points. Being seen as having an intellectual disability, they need immediate aid, he said.

 

The new IQ testing quiz for those aged 2-15 was developed from the old version that had been in use since 2003, said Dr Mathurada Suwannapho, director of Bangkok-based Rajanukul Institute (a well-known hospital for multidisciplinary services for individuals with intellectual disabilities).

 

The quiz, to be tested over a limited time period, will explore five aspects of intellectual ability: analysis and understanding interrelationships of things; spatial cognition based on visual information and muscle and movement expression; memory processing from seeing and hearing; recognising and understanding meanings and reasons in language, learning, environmental observation and problem solving based on experience; and differentiating and classifying things.

 

Quiz development is now at the stage of determining the national norms of the 14 age-based groups among Thai children aged 2-15. Each group will have 5,460 subjects, she said. The study will take three years, running from this year until 2020 and the quiz is expected to be ready for all Thai children that year.

 

Mathurada also recommended that parents consider adopting techniques that could help boost their children’s Intelligence Quotient in the first three years of life. They include teaching kids to express their imagination via picture books and story books, getting them to point out things while strolling with their parent, getting them to think about interrelationships between things by cooking simple meals together, and exercising their hand-eye coordination by touching and picking up things.

 

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maybe the new test could be applied to proof readers, Headline says roll out in 2020, article says roll out in 2010(eight years ago)

"The Mental Health Department is developing a new Intelligence Quotient (IQ) testing quiz for children aged 2-15 and will roll it out nationwide in late 2010."

 

Sounds very promising. Idiots "educated" in the traditional Thai system, and don't know how to read a calendar, are creating the IQ test for the masses. If it consists of recalling song lyrics praising Thailand's supremacy over the rest of the world, the next headline will be: "IQ tests prove that Thailand is the hub of geniuses".

"An estimated 37.61 per cent of Prathom 1 students or about 300,000 children had the IQ scores below the mean of 90 points."

That explains why the political system hasn't improved  and why those in power appear to be very confident of never having to leave office.

Edited May 3, 20188 yr by jaltsc

20 minutes ago, webfact said:

Mathurada also recommended that parents consider adopting techniques that could help boost their children’s Intelligence Quotient in the first three years of life. They include teaching kids to express their imagination via picture books and story books, getting them to point out things while strolling with their parent, getting them to think about interrelationships between things by cooking simple meals together, and exercising their hand-eye coordination by touching and picking up things.

So basically take an interest in your child. You’d think that would be common sense everywhere in the world but seemingly it’s not always the case. 

 

Why have kids if you aren’t going to do your best by them? The reason we have so many selfish and narcissistic people is because they were allowed to do what they liked and at the same time their parents didn’t pay any attention to them. 

 

Anytime anyone rudely asks me why I don’t have kids, I answer, “It’s better to be a selfish person without kids than it is to be a selfish person with kids”

6 minutes ago, rkidlad said:

So basically take an interest in your child. You’d think that would be common sense everywhere in the world but seemingly it’s not always the case. 

 

Why have kids if you aren’t going to do your best by them? The reason we have so many selfish and narcissistic people is because they were allowed to do what they liked and at the same time their parents didn’t pay any attention to them. 

 

Anytime anyone rudely asks me why I don’t have kids, I answer, “It’s better to be a selfish person without kids than it is to be a selfish person with kids”

Well they will certainly be taken aback by such a response. 

That'll teach them eh what.

22 minutes ago, CeeGee said:

maybe the new test could be applied to proof readers, Headline says roll out in 2020, article says roll out in 2010(eight years ago)

Please don't be too hard on them, they haven't sat the IQ test as yet, you know the one, the one to solve all the problems that will make up for the sub-standard teaching regime. 

The Mental Health Department is developing a new Intelligence Quotient (IQ) testing quiz for children aged 2-15 and will roll it out nationwide in late 2010.

 

   Only eight years too late, who wonders? 

This June, a Prathom 1 students nationwide will have their IQ tested, with results released in August, said department director general Dr Boonreung Traireungworawat.

 

    A Prathom 1 students will have their IQ tested? Why not some authors of newspapers? 

30 minutes ago, Expatthailover said:

Well they will certainly be taken aback by such a response. 

That'll teach them eh what.

I very much doubt it will teach them anything. 

 

Some people never learn, (them eh what) 

IQ tests for children aged two? Such is obscene. This testing, testing, testing at a young age just generates stress and has no valuable human outcome. But then, the people who run and control societies (especially such as this one) are not noted to be discernibly human!

98 my sweet bippy. They're likely developing a test that will reflect Prayuths rancid pronouncements rather than reality. In my opinion, anything greater than 90 is likely to be massively fraudulent.

 

Like most things in Thailand.

Edited May 3, 20188 yr by KiwiKiwi

I'm sure this one will be much easier

And they'll be using a Thai IQ scale, yes? Everybody starts from 120 so nobody loses face?

Parents helping.... nice idea but talk about what and from what perspective, and is it  a lecture (one way), or is it a discussion with parents actively listening to their kids (two way)?

 

'Don't do that!' 

 

or

 

'Don't do that, because  .... ' (explanation of why with discussion)

 

That all needs getting Thai parents past the notion that all teaching is the responsibility of the school, not the parents.

 

My personal experience, sometimes I was already back home to our condo in central Bkk after work when my Thai son came home from uni, he often brought 1 or 2 or 3 buddies home with him to work on uni case studies, projects, etc.

 

When son walked in the door he would come straight to me and hug me etc, then start  a discussion about his day, my day etc., often 10 or 15 minutes, all in English.

 

Many times I overheard his buddies quietly ask him 'XXX do you talk to your father?' 'What do you talk about with your father?' and more.

 

 

Edited May 3, 20188 yr by scorecard

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The agency is aiming to raise IQ scores for Thailand’s Grade 1 students to 100 points and beyond, in line with their international peers, said Boonreung.

Does that mean the test will be skewed towards helping children to achieve a better score than they normally would with any of the internationally recognized tests? Almost sounds like it.

 

If my assumption is right, that new IQ test in the international arena will be just as worthless as most Thai educational certificates.

 

As the Mental Health Department admits, almost 40% of Prathom 1 students have scored below 90 points in the currently available test. It would be simply unethical to manipulate the test questions in order to make those students eventually appear as if they were on par with the global mean average of 100 points.

2 hours ago, webfact said:

so that children with lower IQ scores could be swiftly provided with aid.

and have their after-school motorbike playtime reduced !

1 hour ago, Misterwhisper said:

Does that mean the test will be skewed towards helping children to achieve a better score than they normally would with any of the internationally recognized tests? Almost sounds like it.

 

If my assumption is right, that new IQ test in the international arena will be just as worthless as most Thai educational certificates.

 

As the Mental Health Department admits, almost 40% of Prathom 1 students have scored below 90 points in the currently available test. It would be simply unethical to manipulate the test questions in order to make those students eventually appear as if they were on par with the global mean average of 100 points.

 

 

Agree.

 

Having learned a bit about Mr Prayuth and his diminuitive friend over the past 4 years, and having noted Thailand 4's emphasis on intelligent and skilled Thais, and having seen and heard lots about (for example) the EEC and Jack Ma, I strongly suspect there will be no increase in children's IQ, Nonono, the government wants to keep the people stupid and compliant; But Prayuth will want to convince investors in Thailand's future that the Thai people are smart enough to be trained, and educated enough to be upskilled to support the inward investment.

 

In which case, Thailand 4 will burn bright but brief, and Thailand will disappear down the toilet when the investors find out they've been rorted. And I strongly suspect this is how Thailand proposes to rort the inward investment, by overstating the intelligence of Thais and their usefulness in (particuarly) hi-tech enterprises.

 

Convincing an investor that the Thai population is smart and skilled (or ready to be upskilled) will be a really big ask when the evidence to the contrary is both ubiquitous and plentiful. Just drive for a bit among Thai drivers and see how smart and skilled they are.

Edited May 3, 20188 yr by KiwiKiwi

The new IQ tested will be based on Candy Crush. They will test through the roof! Thus proving the world wrong. 

The test will roll out in two years ; that should give school principals time to roll out the answers to ensure their schools do well enough to keep the cash flowing in.

It says a lot about the IQ of the initiators if it takes them 2 years to lower the standards to fit the actual propaganda. This job could be done by Thai experts in 2 weeks time. While they are at it, how about a realistic assimilation of the term Thailand 4.0?

 

And to those running the time machine to replace events back to 2010: how about going back to 2014 and start all over again?

 

IQ tests should be constructed statistically, with high test-re-test reliability and clear validity in measuring intellectual skills.  A well designed and constructed test battery would have roughly 68% of kids having scores between 90 and 110 (if the standard deviation is 10).  This means that roughly 16% should have scores lower than 90 and 16% should have scores above 110.

Therefore the original IQ test was poorly constructed and standardised.

 

The crux of the matter is that IQ tests are standardised to be sure that the mean is 100 and the points above and below that are equally spread to give the same percentages of students getting 100 plus or minus X, whatever X may be.  If it is standardised on Thai children then there is no fair comparison with other nations.  We cannot say that one nation is higher or lower in intellect, unless we produce a culture fair measure, free from language and cultural bias.

 

On a less pedantic note, I would like to see Thai parents and children reading together from an early age.  However, books are expensive here and most Thais do not read books other than text books.  

7 minutes ago, sykray said:

IQ tests should be constructed statistically, with high test-re-test reliability and clear validity in measuring intellectual skills.  A well designed and constructed test battery would have roughly 68% of kids having scores between 90 and 110 (if the standard deviation is 10).  This means that roughly 16% should have scores lower than 90 and 16% should have scores above 110.

Therefore the original IQ test was poorly constructed and standardised.

 

The crux of the matter is that IQ tests are standardised to be sure that the mean is 100 and the points above and below that are equally spread to give the same percentages of students getting 100 plus or minus X, whatever X may be.  If it is standardised on Thai children then there is no fair comparison with other nations.  We cannot say that one nation is higher or lower in intellect, unless we produce a culture fair measure, free from language and cultural bias.

 

On a less pedantic note, I would like to see Thai parents and children reading together from an early age.  However, books are expensive here and most Thais do not read books other than text books.  

They can read an iPhone OK though. Go to any restaurant, mum, dad and the kids are continually reading on them..

I wonder if MENSA are working on their new Thai website right now.

3 minutes ago, transam said:

They can read an iPhone OK though. Go to any restaurant, mum, dad and the kids are continually reading on them..

You are right; but unfortunately this OBSESSION (and it is nothing less than this - a genuine mental affliction which will dumb the people down even further) is widespread nowadays - including in the West (certainly in England). People are glued hypnotically to their mobile phones. And if they mislay their phone or are separated from it for a few hours - they go into genuine panic mode and suffer withdrawal symptoms. It is a mental sickness now. 

 

Drop an atom bomb beside these phone-obsessives - and they would not even notice it (too busy sending selfies of themselves with their latest McDonald's 'meal'!).

16 hours ago, Misterwhisper said:

Does that mean the test will be skewed towards helping children to achieve a better score than they normally would with any of the internationally recognized tests? Almost sounds like it.

 

If my assumption is right, that new IQ test in the international arena will be just as worthless as most Thai educational certificates.

 

As the Mental Health Department admits, almost 40% of Prathom 1 students have scored below 90 points in the currently available test. It would be simply unethical to manipulate the test questions in order to make those students eventually appear as if they were on par with the global mean average of 100 points.

Of course it's unethical, but Thais don't worry about ethical.

 

Designing a new IQ test is driven by one thing and one thing only: the old IQ test gave what the government believes was the wrong result so they are writing a new one to give what they believe is the right result.

 

It doesn't take 2 years to write a new test. though it may take 2 years to roll it out if they do what Thais usually do, and that is balls it up; Thais love the pomp and ceremony of paperwork, much of it unnecessary. In that respect its bit like the Indai of 30 years ago.

 

Thailand hasn't yet woken up to the fact that the problem with education is not the IQ of it's children, the IQ of it's children is the consequence of the education system, not the cause. Incompetence of leadership, incompetence of administration, incompetence of teaching staff and incompetence of parenting are the problems with the Thai education system. Unless and until they resolve those problems, it will remain as it is; useless. It will take 50 years to resolve, not the 2 years it takes to design a fraudulent IQ test and roll it out.

 

 

Edited May 4, 20188 yr by KiwiKiwi

If Forest Gump could not score over 75 and ended up a millionaire investor in Apple shares....then there is still hope for all these Thai kids who score less than 90...

 

 

But are Thai folk young or old "allowed" to think...?

 

I don't think so, to me it seems anyone in a high position/controller must be right and obeyed..

1 hour ago, transam said:

Trans, you need more exercise, your hands appear to be shrinking..

18 hours ago, CeeGee said:

maybe the new test could be applied to proof readers, Headline says roll out in 2020, article says roll out in 2010(eight years ago)

Beat me to it !! 

Maybe it was a trick question and we passed !!