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Peer reviewedPerkins, D. N. – Educational Leadership, 1986
Sifts through confusing intelligence theories, arguing that intelligence is a combination of influences involving power, tactics, and content. Good thinking is an unnatural act demanding evenhanded reasoning, problem finding (versus solving), and knowledge as invention. Discusses thinking frames guiding thought processes and the implications for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Intellectual Development, Intelligence
Costa, Arthur L., Ed.; Kallick, Bena, Ed. – 2000
This is the third in a four-book series describing 16 types of intelligent behavior called habits of mind. It considers how to assess and report student progress in using the habits of mind, maintaining that a critical attribute of intelligence is not only having information but also knowing how to act on it. After the "Series Foreword:…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Download full textLazear, David G. – 1992
Over the past 50 years, brain researchers have stated that human beings probably use less than 1 percent of the brain's potential, and research findings about human intelligence have transformed almost all previous definitions of intelligence. This booklet addresses the following key findings in intelligence research: intelligence is not fixed or…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Brain, Brain Hemisphere Functions
