Intelligences
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Question What is Success
Answer All of the immediate below
- Success is doing what we enjoy most
- Success is spending time at something that is important to us
- Success is fitting our natural and nurtured abilities into available marketplace options
- Success is teasing out our more dominant intelligences from our less dominant ones
- Success is blending interests and hobbies into an existing job
As the above answer suggests, this site is all about how we can be successful by using the smarts that our parents (naturally) gave us and which we have nurtured over our growing years. For most of my adult working life, I have been interested in this area, especially its relationship (or lack thereof) to our current public school system. I am concerned about those youngsters who pass through the schooling system only to become unsuccessful adults. Might some of the below decrease this ongoing schooling situation.
Book Review of Gardner's Intelligence Reframed: MI for the 21st Century
In 1983, a Harvard University psychologist, Howard Gardner, wrote Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, a book he believed he was writing predominantly to enlighten mainstream psychologists, not classroom educators. In Frames, he proposed a novel notion: that the psychological construct intelligence be formally measured in more ways than simply through dry statistical analytical lenses of widely accepted logical/linguistic IQ-type formalized tests, tests standardized for most school systems. Gardner questioned the classical belief that we could have only one mode of representation about life. Instead, he suggested that a more pluralistic viewpoint for measuring mental functioning ought be addressed – a variety of intelligent ways of thinking.Diaz-Lefebvre, René
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General Intelligence, or g
In 1904, an English psychologist, Charles Spearman, examined the literature of the 19th century on the psychological construct intelligence. Most simply stated for here, his research findings suggested that those who performed well on one test of intelligence seemed to perform well on all others. Spearman thus theorized the existence of a general intelligence factor which he decided to label g. He believed that g was used to process many cognitive domains and thus makes some of us good at nearly every intellectual challenge. Since then, many mainstream investigators have supported Spearman's hypothesis. The consensus among conventional psychologists and traditional scientists today continues to be that a g factor accounts for a great deal of the variations in intelligence test scores.Intelligences data base under construction
MITA
MITA is a multiple intelligences (MI) application that offers well-received and highly published brain-based programs enabling business and educational leaders to tap into new parts of their brains that often remain in idle. Under the guidance of Ellen Weber and Robyn McMaster, the MITA Center provides a dynamic new mental model in practical steps, for leaders to use hidden mental talents to increase resources and revenue.PhD pilot study
This published paper outlines how verbal protocols were used to compare the self-perceived MI of grade eight (8) students to classroom teacher nominations. Simply stated, for here, classroom teachers nominated students considered dominant in one of Howard Gardner’s intelligences. The students were then asked to verbalize aloud while ranking themselves using scenarios depicting each of the intelligences. Concurrent and retrospective verbal protocols were audio-taped, transcribed verbatim to text, coded and analyzed. Results indicated a strong agreement between teacher nomination and student identification of Gardner’s intelligences. More detailed studies should be completed before determining the validity and reliability of profiling such intelligences.Research investigation
Subjects who have successfully completed Phase I of a longitudinal study into the development of an assessment instrument to profile human intelligences can commence Phase II by clicking on the immediate above title. As an aside, since the earliest of times, views as to the nature of the psychological construct human intelligence have been polarized -- from mainstream psychologists who consider cerebral capabilities as a general factor, singular and static -- to some developmental psychologists who advocate a pluralistic model of our cognitive capacities.Smarter (successful minds are really the end result) longitudinal study
The MI News
From 1999 until 2003, Clifford Morris edited The MI News, an online newsletter that dealt specifically with Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences.Truth, Beauty and Goodness: Education for all human beings: A Talk with Howard Gardner
Trying to link general occupations and multiple intelligences
Revised: Monday, 25 August, 2008