Multiple Intelligence
Intelligence – the mental abilities needed to select, adapt to and shape environments. It involves the abilities to learn from experience, solve problems, reason, and successfully meet challenges and achieve goals
Measuring Intelligence: IQ
• Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
– All intelligence tests produce an IQ
– IQ is a measure of person’s performance relative to performance of others.
• IQ = Mental Age/Chronological Age x 100.
• Calculating IQ: Example:
– Chronological Age: 10
– Mental Age (based on questions you answer correctly on the intelligence test) = 12.
– IQ: 12/10 x 100 = 120 is your IQ
What Does IQ Predict?
1. Academic Achievement
• Test scores, grades, staying in school
2. Occupational Attainment
• Kids with high IQ are more successful
Important to consider:
– Family background characteristics (e.g., encouragement)
– Personality (e.g., ambition/drive)
– Practical intelligence or the ability to do well in real life situations
3. Psychological Adjustment
• High IQ related to being liked more by other
• Low IQ related to aggression, delinquency
Theorist Howard Gardner proposed that we have different intelligences in at least 8 different areas:
Measuring Intelligence: IQ
• Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
– All intelligence tests produce an IQ
– IQ is a measure of person’s performance relative to performance of others.
• IQ = Mental Age/Chronological Age x 100.
• Calculating IQ: Example:
– Chronological Age: 10
– Mental Age (based on questions you answer correctly on the intelligence test) = 12.
– IQ: 12/10 x 100 = 120 is your IQ
What Does IQ Predict?
1. Academic Achievement
• Test scores, grades, staying in school
2. Occupational Attainment
• Kids with high IQ are more successful
Important to consider:
– Family background characteristics (e.g., encouragement)
– Personality (e.g., ambition/drive)
– Practical intelligence or the ability to do well in real life situations
3. Psychological Adjustment
• High IQ related to being liked more by other
• Low IQ related to aggression, delinquency
Theorist Howard Gardner proposed that we have different intelligences in at least 8 different areas:
- Our abilities in these different areas are distinct
1. Linguistic – Ability to use language (e.g., poet, author)
2. Spatial – Ability to visualize and manipulate visual-spatial relationships (e.g., engineer, sculptor)
3. Logical-Mathematical – Ability to perceive abstract symbol relationships. (e.g.,
mathematicians, scientists)
4. Musical – Sensitivity to pitch, melody, etc. (e.g., musician, composer.)
5. Body-Kinesthetic – Ability to use body skillfully. Dancer, athlete.
6. Naturalist – Sensitivity to factors that influence and are influenced by the natural environment. (e.g., biologist, naturalist).
7. Interpersonal – Responding appropriately to mood, temperaments, motives of others. (e.g., therapist, public relations)
8. Intrapersonal – Sensitivity to one’s own inner state
– Important in all areas of life.
To learn more about the type of learner your child is, click on the button below:
Throughout the school year, efforts will be made to support and acknowledge each type of intelligence the students in the class possess. Field trips, independent work, group work, presentations, drama, etc... are a number of examples I plan on applying in the classroom.
To better understand the type of learner you and your child are, please go back to the menu of this section of the website, scroll down to multiple intelligence and move across to find and take the multiple intelligence test.