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The Uncertainty of Child Behavior Performance Hypothetically, let’s say you ran a fancy private elementary school. Like othe
The Uncertainty of Child Behavior Performance Hypothetically, let’s say you ran a fancy private elementary school. Like othe
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2013-05-04
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The Uncertainty of Child Behavior Performance
Hypothetically, let’s say you ran a fancy private elementary school. Like other private schools in the region, you’re competing to put out the brightest kids. And one of the ways you engineer this is through your admissions process—you try to select the kids who will get the most out of what your school has to offer. Kids who can handle the intellectual challenge, and who don’t disrupt the class.
So, if you’re like other private schools, you bring the five-year-old applicants in for some intellectual assessment, and you also set up some games and playrooms for them so that you can watch them for an hour or two—to monitor their behavior. You’re looking for kids who get upset, withdraw, can’t wait for their turn, dominate other kids, can’t sit still, don’t pay attention to the instructions, et cetera.
Then you admit the kids who looked best. This seems innocuous. It’s common practice. However, according to an ongoing study in Germany, what you might have done will just reject some of the very best kids’ early behavior lies.
This study, by Gisela Trommsdorff and Antje Von Suchodoletz, is following a group of kids who are making the transition from kindergarten to first grade. At the beginning of kindergarten, the scholars measured these kids’ reasoning ability with a test of their nonverbal intelligence. They also measured their goal-oriented self-control with a variation of Mischel’s marshmallow task and a persistence test. The persistence test, for kids of this age, goes like this:kids are asked to draw a big circle. Then they’re told by a teacher it’s not quite circular enough, it’s not good enough—do they want to try again? The child tries again. Every time, the teacher responds it’s not circular enough. Of course, nobody can draw a perfect circle. What the test measures is how long a child can hang in there, continuing to try, when confronted with negative feedback. Some kids quit quickly, while others keep going through endless trials.
The scholars also got teachers to fill out behaviour-rating questionnaires about the children. We would expect that kids with higher reasoning ability plus higher persistence and self control would have less behavior problems. However, the scholars saw a very dramatic trend in the other direction: High reasoning ability + High Persistence/ SelfControl = More behavior problems, not less.
What the scholars believe is that Nonverbal Intelligence disrupts the expected relationship between self-control and behavior.
Theoretically, self-control and behavior should go hand in hand, and for low-IQ kids, that’s absolutely true. But not for kids who are well above-average in reasoning ability. Why this is the case probably has something to do with the distinction ability. Why this is the case probably has something to do with the distinction between goal-oriented tasks and normal social interactions like playgroups where there is no actual goal to focus upon. Smart kids’behavior in the latter context is probably not a good proxy for their ability to apply themselves in the former context.
I’m eager to see if Von Suchodoletz’s finding is replicated by other scholars. If so, it doesn’t mean private schools should start admitting the wild ones—that’d be absurd. What it suggests is that behavior is unreliable, even contradictory. Rather than being a window into their future, it’s a kaleidoscope .
Which kind of the following kids will be admitted by private schools?
选项
A、Kids who disturb the class.
B、Kids who can play for hours.
C、Kids who don’t give up easily.
D、Kids who dominate other kids.
答案
C
解析
推理判断题。根据题干关键词kids will be admitted by private schools定位到前两段。第二段提及私立学校通过考核排除那些厌烦者、退出者和欺负其他孩子者等,由此推测坚持者则可能会被录取,所以[C]为正确选项。同理排除[A]和[D]。原文只是说观察一两个小时,[B]并非原文所提标准,故排除。
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