How Many Ways Is a Child Intelligent?.

Scherer, Marge

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ERIC Number: EJ310778

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1985

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How Many Ways Is a Child Intelligent?

Scherer, Marge

Instructor, v94 n5 p32-35 Jan 1985

Research psychologist Howard Gardner susggests that there are at least seven intelligences and that competence in these intelligences varies. The biological and cultural bases of this theory is explored. Implications for teachers are offered. (DF)

Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education, Individual Differences, Intelligence Differences, Student Evaluation, Teacher Role

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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