Achievement and IQ Tests Have Been Criticized as Being Too

question 30

Multiple Choice

Achievement and IQ tests have been criticized as being too narrow in focus to use in the identification of giftedness because

• A) they concentrate on divergent thinking.
• B) they focus on the traditional areas of analytic abilities and linguistic and logico-mathematical reasoning.
• C) they are time-consuming and expensive to administer.
• D) All of the above.

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