Intelligence • Our traditional understanding of intelligence is that our ability to learn and do things occur at the same cognitive capacity. • Alfred Binet, designed a test to analyze a child’s intelligence.
The IQ Test Designed to show a student’s weakness. American schools started using it to rank students. Average score 100 Gifted score 131+ Special Education Score 81
Scholastic Aptitude Test • Measurement of Raw Intelligence. • Used by nearly every college in America. • www. collegeboard. com. • Lots of versions of this test.
Howard Gardner • Graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Education. • Created the Multiple Intelligence theory in 1983.
Multiple Intelligences • A different way to look at the intellect. • Rather then ask “How Smart Are You”? ask “How Are You Smart”? The number of Multiple Intelligence range from 8 – 10, most people have 3 to 4 that are stronger then the others.