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?
Outside their family home, children in the United States spend the largest portion of their time in this setting.
What is a school classroom?
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
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?
This is a more important influence on student performance than race, class, or the particular school a student attends
What is teacher quality?
Finding one correct solution for a problem
What is Convergent Thinking
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?
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?
Motivation that depends on receiving an incentive or reward from the environment
What is Extrinsic Motivation
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 or Bell Curve (distribution of IQ scores)?
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?
Intelligence that allows us to quickly and effectively solve novel problems for which we have little training
What is Fluid Intelligence?
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?
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?
Motivation that comes from inside the person, such as a feeling of pride for a job well done.
What is Intrinsic motivation