Multiple Intelligence

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.

What are the 8 Multiple Intelligence?

Verbal/Linguistic

Logical/Mathematical

Visual/Spatial

Musical

Interpersonal

Bodily/

Kinesthetic

Naturalist

Emotional

Intrapersonal

Google: Multiple intelligence test

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/

What does this mean to me?

• Course selection

• Occupation choices

• Understanding aptitudes and how to apply them