Standardized Testing

The traditional view of intelligence is that people are born with a fixed amount of it. With the traditional education system, all students are taught the same material, in the same ways. Standardized testing is often used, mostly testing logic and language skills However, Howard Garner came up with the theory of Multiple Intelligences, in 1983. He believed that every human being has a unique combination of the eight different intelligences (linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, naturalistic, bodily kinesthetic, spacial-visual, interpersonal and intrapersonal,) and that standardized testing is not an accurate assessment of intelligence. From the Multiple Intelligences personality test, I determined that my two main learning styles are

Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers developed it to help people understand Carl Jung’s theory, and apply it to their lives. There are 16 possible personality types, based on unique combinations of the different categories (Extraverted vs Introverted, Sensing vs Intuition, Thinking vs Feeling, and Perceiving vs Judging.) Every type has its strengths and weaknesses, and there are not types that are better or worse than others. From this personality instrument, I figured out that I am an ENFP (Extrovert, iNtuition, Feeling, Perceiving.) After doing some more research on this personality type, I realized that it is such an accurate description of me! The E stands for extrovert. This means that I am energized by the presence of others. Personally, I consider myself to be an ambivert. I have both extroverted and introverted tendencies, however I scored Extrovert on the test. Also, the ENFP description is a lot more accurate for me than the INFP one is. One thing I found particularly interesting about the ENFP personality type is that it is the most introverted type of extroversion. ENFP personality types enjoy their alone time, but often prefer to be alone while still in the presence of