Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ackerman, Phillip L.
• Cooper, Harris

Titel

Intelligence ... Moving Beyond the Lowest Common Denominator

Ist Teil von

• The American psychologist, 2023-04, Vol.78 (3), p.283-297

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Psychological Association

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Despite a century of use in assessing children for predicting academic success, IQ theory and assessments largely overlook the intellectual repertoires of adolescents and adults that are not common, including declarative, procedural, and tacit knowledge. Such knowledge and skill repertoires are essential elements of adult intellectual life and livelihood. A proposal for considering a wider range of knowledge and skills in the definition and assessment of intelligence is offered, along with ideas for moving forward in both research and applications. When intelligence is considered beyond the lowest common denominator, it is clear that there are many important questions have yet to be answered about adolescent and adult intellectual development, maintenance, and decline, occupational performance, relations between intelligence and nonability traits, and the role of engagement in day-to-day intellectual functioning. The proposed focus is to reconsider what it means to be an intelligent adult beyond the IQ measures and to recognize that adults, on average, are far more "intelligent" than they have been considered to be by traditional IQ assessments developed over the last century. Public Significance Statement Traditional measures of intellectual abilities focus on knowledge that is common to a population. These assessments may be appropriate for children, but they do not capture the day-to-day intellectual functioning of most adults. Assessing knowledge and skill repertoires may improve understanding of development, maintenance, and decline of intelligence in adolescence and adulthood.