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Peer reviewedRitchhart, Ron – Roeper Review, 2001
This article explores what the concept of intellectual character offers that traditional views of intelligence based on abilities do not. The origins of the concept of thinking dispositions are traced and various views regarding the dispositions that might comprise and define one's intellectual character are investigated. Educational implications…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Cognitive Style, Curiosity, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedKaufman, Alan S. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1979
This paper is intended to aid interpretation of intelligence tests in light of neurological findings and to suggest future test designs which would reflect cerebral hemisphere specialization. The need is emphasized for improved measures of right brain functioning, especially for Blacks, who exhibit some degree of right hemisphere preference. (SJL)
Descriptors: Blacks, Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Style, Intelligence Differences
Peer reviewedKeil, Frank C. – Intelligence, 1982
An approach to intelligence which emphasizes domain-specific constraints on knowledge structures is compared to information processing approaches. The evaluation of any cognitive ability as being intelligent crucially depends on prior specification of the formal constraints on the domains of knowledge from which that ability originates. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style
Peer reviewedHorn, John L. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1979
Intended as a nontechnical review of current scientific knowledge in the field, this essay considers the nature of primary and secondary intellectual abilities, plus the major features of, and the development of individual differences in, the skills and capacities constituting intelligence. Part of a theme issue on intelligence. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Developmental Stages, Human Development
Download full textCostanzo, Meg Ryback – 2001
In the Adult Multiple Intelligences (AMI) study, 10 teachers of adults from the northeastern region of the United States explored for 18 months the ways that multiple intelligences (MI) theory could support instruction and assessment in various adult learning contexts. The results of this research were published in a book by Julie Viens called MI…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Kallenbach, Silja; Viens, Julie – 2002
The Adult Multiple Intelligences Study was the first systematic effort related to multiple intelligences (MI) theory in adult literacy education. The study's findings regarding MI theory served as the foundation for a study of MI theory's implications for adult literacy practice, policy, and research. The study was conducted across 10 different…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy
