What Should Intelligence Tests Test? Implications of a Triarchic Theory of Intelligence for Intelligence Testing.

Sternberg, Robert J.

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ERIC Number: EJ294314

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1984

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What Should Intelligence Tests Test? Implications of a Triarchic Theory of Intelligence for Intelligence Testing.

Sternberg, Robert J.

Educational Researcher, v13 n1 p5-15 Jan 1984

Argues that IQ tests work only for some people some of the time. Offers a theory that emphasizes the roles in intelligence of information-processing, the environmental context, and coping with novelty and automatization of task performance, as a possibility for improving levels of prediction. (CMG)

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Epistemology, Intelligence, Intelligence Tests, Standardized Tests, Test Theory, Test Validity

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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