UTC-TRC--Multiple Intelligences

Multiple Intelligences--Intelligence Criteria

Grayson H. Walker Teaching Resource Center
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
401 Hunter Hall--Mail Code 4354
615 McCallie Ave.
Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598
(423) 425-4188
(423) 425-4025 (fax)

Send ideas for new workshops or comments to: Karen I. Adsit, EdD, Director

Last modified April 16, 2002

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The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is an EEO/AA/Title VI/Title IX/Section 504/ADA institution.

What constitutes an intelligence?
An intelligence CAN be defined as the ability to answer items on tests of intelligence. It can also be defined as "the ability to solve
problems or fashion products that are of consequence in a particular cultural setting or community." (Gardner, H., 1993)

Intelligence Criteria

Must have an identifiable core operation or set of operations.
Must also be susceptible to encoding in a symbol system.
Knowledge about normal development.
Information about the breakdown of cognitive skills under conditions of brain damage.
Studies of exceptional populations, including prodigies, savants and autistic children.
Data about the evolution of cognition over the millennia.
Cross-cultural accounts of cognition.
Psychometric studies, including examinations of correlation among tests.
Psychological training studies, particularly measures of transfer and generalization across tasks.

(Gardner, H., 1999)

Grayson H. Walker Teaching Resource Center
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
401 Hunter Hall--Mail Code 4354
615 McCallie Ave.
Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598
(423) 425-4188
(423) 425-4025 (fax)

Send comments to: Karen I. Adsit, EdD, Director

Last modified: April 17, 2002

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is an EEO/AA/Title VI/TitleIX/Section 504/ADA institution.