TY - JOUR
AU - STERNBERG, ROBERT J.
AB - What Should Intelligence Tests Test? Implications of a Triarchic Theory of Intelligence for Intelligence Testing ROBERT J. STERNBERG Yale University IQ tests work only for some mostly empty, or as at least partly Overview of the Triarchic Theory people some of the time. This asser­ full. Schmidt and Hunter (1981b) tion is an inescapable conclusion of have pointed out that typical ap­ The triarchic theory of human in­ titude tests predict significantly to the fact that "it is unusual for a va­ telligence comprises three sub- lidity coefficient to rise above .60, a surprisingly wide array of aca­ theories. The first relates in­ though that is far from perfect pre­ demic and job criteria. For what­ telligence to the internal world of diction" (Cronbach, 1970, p. 135). ever inadequacies intelligence and the individual, specifying the men- This situation has not really changed other aptitude tests may have, they tal mechanisms that lead to more clearly improve prediction in many over many years: In reviewing the and less intelligent behavior. This literature on test validities, Ghiselli situations to a level above that subtheory specifies three kinds of (1966) found validities had changed which would be obtained in the ab­ information-processing 
TI - What Should Intelligence Tests Test? Implications of a Triarchic Theory of Intelligence for Intelligence Testing
JF - Educational Researcher
DO - 10.3102/0013189X013001005
DA - 1984-01-01
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EP - 15
VL - 13
IS - 1
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