Week 21

AP Psychology students: How intelligent are you? According to Spearman, Thurstone, Garnder, Strenberg, and Goleman what are your strengths? What are the dangers of limiting intelligence to IQ? While we all agree that your educators should teach to your multiple intelligences, should they assess them equally? Should your essay score equal someone else’s drawing score? Should universities use the SAT or portfolios for admissions? What is the best way to measure and use aptitude and achievement in high school assessments and university admissions? And what about your teachers, should they be tested? When? How? Any data proves that existing practices work? What is the best way to teach to all the students' intelligences>

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[Beam]

According to Spearman, my strength is my s factor or more specifically my mathematical skills. According to Thurstone, my strength would be my mathematical, inductive reasoning, verbal and word fluency skills. According to Gardner, my strength would be mathematical, verbal, intrapersonal, naturalistic and spiritual skill. According to Sternberg, my strength would be my creative thinking process. According to Goleman, I have no strength. Too often I let my emotion take over rather than my brain.
The dangers of limiting intelligence to IQ is that IQ isn't everything, the scores changes every year. There are many types of intelligence that IQ couldn't measure. Body-Kenestic intelligence counts according to Gardner but IQ doesn't test it.
I think that the teacher should analyze first the strengths of the students. For an example if the class contains a lot of students who depend on spatial or picture then the teacher might have to be more focused on the image.
My essay score shouldn't equal somebody else's drawing score because it uses different skills. I think the the university should use SAT scores because this way every one would be equal.
The best way is to use many types of tests so that we can check their reliability.
I think that the teacher should take many tests including the rochach test is identify whether or not they have mental problem. They should take the test again randomly.
I think that the best way to teach to student is to first understand them then teach according to the results.

[Zen]

How much intelligent do I acquire? It depends on which theorist you are talking about. According to Spearman two factor theory of intelligence, my strength would be best at factor s or specific mental ability such as verbal skills. According to Thurstone, my strength would be perceptual speed because I feel that my comparison skill is somewhat better than some of my friends. According to Garnder, I think my strength would be body-kinesthetic because I feel that I had a good movement ability compare to some of my friend. According to Strenberg, my strength would be practical because I feel that I can handle thing better when I am in real situation. According to Goleman, my strength is using my emotion while thinking. The dangers of limited intelligence to IQ is that all intelligence is not based on the IQ test scores because maybe we are good at drawing but the IQ test doesn’t measure that because it measure almost only problem solving skills. The teacher should education everyone with equally multiple intelligence because everyone might did better with everyone different style of learning. In my opinion my essay score should not be equal to someone else drawing score because it uses different intelligence and that could not be able to see the ability with the same scores. I think university should use the SAT and portfolios because it really showed us who we are not just based on just some intelligent scores. The best way to measure and use aptitude and achievement is that they need to have different kind of intelligence test. My teacher to should be test because in order to teach a student the teacher should be able to express the ideas by using different kind of mental intelligence and giving them situation to teach on. The best way to teach student is to use many kind of intelligence to adjust to what the student need to learn best.

[Wendy]

According to some theories, my intelligence can be measured by a single IQ score, but others state differently. According to Spearman’s theory, there are two factors in intelligence, the first being a person’s general intelligence (g) and the second being a person’s specific abilities (s). According to Thurstone, there are seven primary mental abilities, including verbal comprehension, numerical ability, spatial relations, perceptual speed, word fluency, memory, and inductive reasoning. The measurements of all these abilities sums up to be our intelligence. My strength is in verbal comprehension, which means I understand meaning of words and concepts quite easily. According to Garnder, there are eight types of intelligence. Several of the intelligences from his theory are similar to Thurstone’s mental abilities. Other different ones include musical ability, body-kinesthetic ability, interpersonal skills, intrapersonal skills, and naturalist intelligence. My strengths are in the verbal intelligence, as mentioned above, and the interpersonal intelligence, which means I have skills at understanding others’ mood and motivations. According to Sternberg’s triarchic theory, or the three-part theory, intelligence can be divided into three parts: analytical thinking, creative thinking, and practical thinking. I’m not sure but I think my strength is in creative thinking, since I find it easy to adapt to new environments. According to Goleman, emotional intelligence is an intelligence including aspects of Garnder’s interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligences.

When intelligence is limited only to IQ, people are being tested unfairly. IQ is more related to logical and analytical thinking, but for some people those might not be their best abilities. A person might have amazing music skills but not as good IQ, that doesn’t mean they are not intelligent.

Teachers should teach to our multiple intelligences, but they should not assess them equally. Some intelligences, such as verbal and logical, are more common in everyone and those are the ones that should be emphasized. Whether an essay score and a drawing score should be counted equally depends on the situation. The same answer goes to the question regarding SAT scores and portfolio. If the student is applying to a institute that emphasizes studies like mathematics, they should focus on the SAT score, and an art institute should focus on the portfolio. This way the institutes can judge students by their specific abilities.

Teachers should be tested differently, because they should have clear understanding of every abilities and how to teach to each specific one. The best way to teach to all student’s intelligences is to make sure in put in activities that teaches to specific students in need of them but at the same time be beneficial for the other students as well.

[Dino]

To answer the question of how intelligent I am, I must first define "intelligence". Throughout the past and even now, psychologists struggle to define the work. There are many theories that say different things. According to Spearman, intelligence depends on solely one factor: "g". How much "g" a person has determines how intelligent a person is. I have the average amount of "g" among people, and so have an average intelligence with no weaknesses or strengths in all fields. According to Thurstone, ,my strength would be "word fluency", because I learn best listening and talking to people. According to Gardner, I have a lot of verbal-linguistic intelligence because I find talking about books easy and find joy in words and sentences. According to Sternberg, I have a lot of analytical intelligence because I do quite well in school. I am not really creative or "street smart". According to Goleman, I have some IQ but feel that I need more EQ. I usually know my school stuff, but find it sometimes hard to read someone's emotions. I usually know what I'm feeling (intrapersonal).

The dangers of limiting intelligence to "IQ" is that it only measures "school stuff" like how you explain something or how you solve a math problem. It doesn't imply you know how to apply what you know in real life situations. what you learn in school and what you need in real life can be quite different. An educator shouldn't access the different types of intelligence equally. The teacher should observe the strengths and weaknesses of a student and teach accordingly to the student's strengths. My essay score and another person's drawing should not be scored equally. They are different things that need different skills. A university should use the one that is appropriate for what a student is majoring in. If a student is learning art, then the portfolio is the appropriate one, not the SAT score. The best way for a high school to use tests is to do everything and see where a person succeeds and where a person fails. This way, we can see how intelligent a person is with any theory (except practical intelligence).

Teachers should also be tested. This should be conducted as aptitude and achievement tests at teacher schools. There are already existing practices that test whether a teacher is good or bad. The best way to teach all the students is to analyze the general strength of the class and use that field and method to teach the class.

[Pob]

I can’t answer that question that how intelligence I am. Intelligence is not just from an IQ test but it’s a combination of many skill and ability too. According to Spearman, my strength is factor g, which I am very good at math when I come to a situation like counting money. According to Thurstone, my strength is memory. I usually remember many things in a short period of time. I am good at the short-term memory, which this helps me pass many vocabulary tests. According to Gardner, my strength is body-kinesthetic. Even though people think that I am chubby and can’t move really faster, eventually I run faster than many of my friend. According to Goleman, my strength is creativity. I usually do stuff that look fancy so that it would be interesting to the teacher and friends.

The danger of limiting intelligences to IQ is that people usually think that our intelligences is base on IQ with is wrong. Our IQ is not just basing on problem solve, but also with our skill and ability. I my opinion educator should assess them unequal because they should also concern with students strengthens. I don’t want my essay score to be equal to someone else art work because the two thing use different types of skill and ability. I think that universities should use both SAT and portfolios because SAT would tell how much the student learn in high school and the portfolios would tell which type of person they are accepting. Basically, portfolios show the university who we are as a student. The best way to measure and use aptitude and achievement in high school assessments and university admissions is to give many kind of test to test what they know in every subject and what is there strength. The teacher should also be tested too. They should be tested before the school accepted them to teach the student and the test should be base on the subject that they are teaching and a personality test. The best way to teach students is to teach and give different kind of assignment, project, and homework so every student would benefit from it. For example, if a teacher only gives a writing homework, the student that is good at writing would only be the one that benefit so the teacher needs to be more flexible.

[J]

Ordinary people usually thinks that intelligent means our IQ. However, after I read over this chapter I realizes that intelligent contains many abilities together in which some likely to be talent. According to Spearman, my strength would be s factor, or the factor that’s about person specific mental abilities which is math skills for me. That’s because I love to solving numeric numbers with equation while getting a good grade. While according to Thurstone, my strength is memory primary ability. My memorization especially short term memory works pretty well. That’s because most of the time I usually remembers more things than my friend in such a short time. According to Gardner, my strength is intrapersonal ability. Which is about understanding my own feeling and regulate it. Lastly according to Goleman, my strength is analytical thinking, mostly I can’t apply my knowledge to the new situation, but did best with the old one. The danger of limiting intelligence to IQ would be not considering what we are good at and depend on our IQ scores. While not considering the possibilities of other ability that we are good at such as musical or body-kinesthetic. Plus, educators should assess them all equally, and find which ability is best suiting for us. However, after a we found that strength ability, we should encourage it by focusing on it but without ignoring the others.
In my opinion, I think that my essay score should not be equal to some else’ drawing score. That’s because drawing and writing essay is focusing on different intelligent and ability. I think that universities should use both of SAT and portfolios because SAT could be count as our aptitude test while portfolios count as our achievement test that score what we have learned so far. In my opinion, I think that aptitude test would be best fit in for the test like SAT that used for entering universities to measure our basic skills. While achievement test would best fit in high school before we graduated while containing all informations we learned so far in high school. Plus we should have a portfolio for entering university. I prefer the teacher to tested before getting the jobs especially with projective test and achievement test. To measure what they know so far as a teacher because teacher should not know just a basic skills, but should know that skills to the specific part. While projective test could measure their personality, and knows their problems before teaching a student. The best way to teach to all the students’ intelligence are to encourage every ability ,but more on what will suit that individuals person.

[Jenny]

How intelligent am I cannot actually be measure by just an IQ test score. It depends on many abilities combine together. According to Spearman, my strength is the g factor which gives me an ability to solve complex mental works. According to Thurstone, my strength is word fluency and memory because I can understand lot of language and I remember lot of details. According to Garnder, my strength are body-kinesthetic and linguistic because I have a balance and I can use Thai, Chinese, English, and Japanese to communicate. According to Goleman, my strength is creative thinking skills because I can be creative with all my projects.

The dangers of limiting intelligence to IQ is that we will think that IQ score can tell how intelligence a person is when it cannot always do that. It only measures the ability to solve problems. The educators should assess them unequally depending on the intelligence that the student is strong with. My essay score should not equal to someone else’ drawing score because it is about different subjects and it uses different skills. I think the universities should use both SAT and portfolios for admissions because SAT will give the universities chances to compare one student with another and choose the best one. The portfolio will be something that really show how an individual is like and what they are good at. It is really their own works.

The best way to measure and use aptitude and achievement in high school assessments and university admissions is to take a lot of different tests. I think the teacher should be test before they can apply for the job and after that, once per two-three years. An objective test should be used to make us able to know more about their personalities. Existing practices work when we actually learn something from it. The best way to teach to all the students’ intelligence are to use different kind of way that will benefit each students.