Defining Intelligence
"The ability to adapt to the environment, to think and learn, and to understand oneself and others."
What is intelligence? Sternberg
The modern history of intelligence testing began in the early 1900s when he was asked to create a test that would help identify students with mental difficulties for alternative teaching strategies.
Who is Alfred Binet?
He developed the WISC-V battery of tests.
Who is David Wechsler?
Gardner's idea that there are a number of different types of intelligence that are all relatively independent of each other.
What is theory of multiple intelligences?
Outside their family home, children in the U. S. spend the largest portion of their time in this setting.
What is a school classroom?
Those qualities that help us adapt successfully so that we achieve our goals in life.
What is intelligence?
This score is calculated by dividing a child's mental age by his/her chronological age multiplied by 100.
What is an IQ score?
He proposed a theory of multiple intelligences.
Who is Howard Gardner?
The intelligence test closest to g and the one prized highly in most schools.
What is analytical intelligence?
This person has a great effect on student performance in school classroom.
What is an effective and high-quality teacher?
Intelligence that allows us to quickly and effectively solve novel problems for which we have little training.
What is fluid intelligence?
He developed IQ tests for adults and children that were based on a deviation IQ.
Who is David Wechsler?
He believes that intelligence is related not only to success in school but also to success in life.
Who is Robert Sternberg?
The ability to generate ideas and to deal successfully with novelty.
What is creative intelligence?
An educational approach that places students of similar ability in learning groups so they can be taught at a level that is most appropriate for their level of understanding.
What is ability grouping?
What we already know and can draw on to solve problems.
What is crystallized intelligence?
IQ test are designed so that the scores of most people fall near the midpoint (an IQ score of 100). As you move farther away from the center, there are fewer and fewer people with extremely high or extremely low scores.
What is the normal curve (distribution of IQ scores)?
His theory includes three types of intelligence: Analytical, creative, and practical (triarchic theory)
Who is Robert Sternberg?
What is practical intelligence?
An educational approach for gifted children in which the curriculum is covered but in greater depth, breadth, or complexity than is done in a typical classroom.
What is the enrichment approach?
The type of intelligence that is the one closest to "g" or general intelligence and the one prized highly in most schools.
What is analytical intelligence?
Most tests of intelligence are ___________ tests because they are always administered and scored in the same way.
What is standardized?
He proposed a general factor "g" in different measures of intelligence or cognitive abilities.
Who is Charles Spearman?
Finding many possible solutions to a problem_________: narrowing the alternative ideas down to the one that is most practical or likely to succeed.
What is divergent thinking and convergent thinking?
A type of program that allows gifted students to move through the standard curriculum but more quickly than is typical.
What is the accelerated program?