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Comment by Elaine Hook
Author: Elaine Hook (4)
Date posted: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:08:43 PST
Comment on: The Butterfly Project (0)
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I am the Education Consultant for the National Association for Gifted Children in the UK and have been endeavouring to help and advise Ben a little on the Butterfly Project. Its extremely hard to obtain conclusive intelligence test results in the best of circumstances so this was a real challenge and I look forward to viewing the data once it is completed. IQ testing is often only as good as the circumstances on the day and requires the participant, in most cases, to have a certain level of drive, motivation and education. We would not recommend testing under the age of 7 years and the intelligence test should never stand alone, there has to be many other factors taken into account when assessing the participant and looking at the results, e.g. level of education, background, upbringing, values and morals, beliefs, culture, gender, learning disabilities and/or difficulties, schooling, teacher and mentor references, coaching, life experiences etc. This of course is all relative within the local environment of the participant. In order to assist the children of Nigeria we need funding to put skills classes into place for them but first we need to train and pay salaries to high quality teachers who can make a difference to the future generations of Nigeria.
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