About this title: Sternberg explores the full extent of intelligence--what it is, how it can be measured, and how it can be developed, whether in day-to-day problem solving at home or in the high-level world of executive decision-making. It is creative intelligence, according to the author, that produces innovation in business, while practical intelligence is the ...
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Publisher: Plume Books
Date Published: 01/10/1997
ISBN-13:9780452279063ISBN:0452279062
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Publisher: Plume
Date Published: 1997-10-01
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"Robert J. Sternberg, one of the nation's foremost authorities on intelligence, wrote this enlightening book on what he calls, "successful intelligence." Successful intelligence is the kind of intelligence used to achieve important goals or make a difference. According to him, people who succeed, whether by their own standards or by other peopole's, are those who have managed to acquire, develop, and apply a full range of intellectual skills, rather than relying on inert intelligence (memorization of stagnant facts) that schools so value and the majority of students are tested on. People who have successful intelligence know their strengths; they know their weaknesses. They capitalize on their strengths; they compensate for or correct their weaknesses.
Written in 1997 and highly relevant today, the book revolves around the history, purpose, and accuracy of what is actually evaluated on IQ tests, it also addresses many of the issues pertaining to the use of standardized testing, and the real reason SATs became a part of the college filtering experience.
Sternberg drives home his belief that of the multiplicity of intelligences that exist (of which there are many) successful intelligence is by far the most effective and useful to students because it accurately correlates with the skills that are required to succeed in the real world.
Successful Intelligence consists primarily of three components: Analytical Intelligence (which involves judging and evaluating ideas), Creative Intelligence (which involves inventiveness and imagination in problem solving), and Practical Intelligence (which involves using, utilizing, and applying strategies, ideas, and facts). He elaborates on the importance of using these three intelligences in tandem to get a complete picture of intelligence.
This book has been incredibly valuable to me as a college professor because it has forced me to re-evaluate certain aspects of my teaching such as spending more time discussing the content of my curriculum for analytical purposes, instead of merely having my students engage in the common and futile exercise of rote memorization. It also confirmed some things that I suspected, and can now have reasearch to prove, such as the faultiness of multiple choice tests, and the true educational value of essays.
If you are a teacher, or interested in becoming one, you will benefit from this marvelous educational tool in the short and longterm. Buy it today."
"I picked this one up after reading the "Outliers" (which I loved) and was sorely disappointed. It is not nearly as readable... lots of technical mumbo jumbo that didn't hold my interest."
"Really interesting, and well researched. But the research wasn't the interesting part. Sternberg's own interpretation and analysis, combined with compelling and personal stories is the most interesting."
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