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At last weekend’s annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) in Boston, Cornell University psychologist Robert Sternberg sounded an alarm about the influence of standardized tests on American society. Sternberg, who has studied intelligence and intelligence testing for decades, is well known for his “triarchic theory of intelligence,” which identifies three kinds of smarts: the analytic type reflected in IQ scores; practical intelligence, which is more relevant for real-life problem solving; and creativity. Sternberg offered his views in a lecture associated with receiving a William James Fellow Award from the APS for his lifetime contributions to psychology. He explained his concerns to Scientific American.
[An edited transcript of the interview follows.]
What I argue is that intelligence that’s not modulated and moderated by creativity, common sense and wisdom is not such a positive thing to have. What it leads to is people who are very good at advancing themselves, often at other people’s expense. We may not just be selecting the wrong people, we may be developing an incomplete set of skills—and we need to look at things that will make the world a better place.
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday June 06 2017, @10:51AM (2 children)
Dismissing what you can't measure goes only that far.
Education is not only a science, it's also an art. A good enough dose of feeling, intuition, acting (creating the emotional connection with the kids, or between the kids and the subject). Tell me what "hard science" can model what makes a good actor?
Look at the Finland's education system and see they integrated the "sciency" part with lotsa "common sense" and creating opportunities for the things to "just happen".
Then think again how's "just happen" treated by the "hard science" - if you can't reproduce, eliminate variability, maintain control, right? This doesn't work too well with education, you'll get a generation of drones (just look around and see where control and taming gets the children when they grow up)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday June 06 2017, @03:14PM (1 child)
Eh I don't like that style of engineering. Intuition and gut feeling is for when you don't have hard numbers and results that work. Never toss out hard number that actually work and replace with feels.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday June 06 2017, @09:05PM
Mate, education is NOT engineering. If one takes it like that, of course one is going to fail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford