Ms. Rekha Oraon, a school counsellor in a tribal district of Jharkhand, has to assess the mental ability of about 200 Class VI children before the new session begins. Many of the children speak Kurukh at home and have not yet learnt to read or write Hindi well. For them she plans a task in which each child gets a set of coloured wooden blocks. The child must arrange the blocks within a fixed time to copy a design shown on a card. Before she makes her final plan, she reads about the different kinds of intelligence tests in use.
While planning the assessment, Ms. Rekha reads how intelligence tests are classified. Which of the following correctly pairs a basis of classification with the kinds of tests it gives?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Administration procedure - individual or group tests
Option (1) Administration procedure - individual or group tests — Correct. Administration procedure means how a test is given. On this basis a test is individual (one person at a time) or group (several persons at the same time).
Option (2) Nature of items used - individual or group tests — Incorrect. The nature of the items splits tests into verbal and performance tests. Individual and group tests come from a different basis, the way the test is given.
Option (3) Administration procedure - verbal or performance tests — Incorrect. Verbal and performance tests differ in their items: spoken or written answers versus handling objects. So this split rests on the nature of items.
Option (4) Extent of favouring one culture - verbal or performance tests — Incorrect. How far a test favours one culture makes it culture-fair or culture-biased. The verbal and performance split comes from the nature of items.
NCERT (2026-27): “Types of Intelligence Tests “An individual intelligence test is one which can be administered to one person at a time. A group intelligence test can be administered to several persons simultaneously. …” |