Do School or College Examaminations Measure Intelligence?

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Psychology - General, grade: 18 over 20, University of Dodoma, course: Psychology of Child Development, language: English, abstract: This paper discusses about intelligence by looking specifically on whether school and college examinations measure intelligence or not. In addressing the issue, the paper starts by conceptualizing intelligence and its types. It then goes further by showing whether school and college examination measure intelligence or not and showing how intelligence is measured and finally it ends by showing the distinction between intelligence and academic performance which are the two distinct terms that have been equated wrongly.

Product details

• Authors: Cosmas Anyelwisye Mahenge
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2013
• EAN: 9783656162247
• ISBN: 978-3-656-16224-7
• No. of pages: 12
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 1 mm
• Weight: 34 g
• Series: Akademische Schriftenreihe; Akademische Schriftenreihe Bd. V191399; Akademische Schriftenreihe; Akademische Schriftenreihe Bd. V191399
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works