Alter | 76 Jahre |
Beruf | Hochschullehrer, Psychologe |
Geburtsdatum | Donnerstag, 08. Dezember 1949 |
Geburtsort | Newark, New Jersey, U.S. |
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Beschreibung | Robert J. Sternberg (* 8. Dezember 1949) ist ein US-amerikanischer Psychologe und Psychometriker. Er ist Professor für Human Development an der Cornell University. Sternberg besitzt einen Bachelor-Abschluss von der Yale University und einen PhD von der Stanford University, unter der Betreuung von Gordon Bower. Er hält dreizehn Ehrendoktorwürden von zwei nordamerikanischen, einer südamerikanischen, einer asiatischen und neun europäischen Universitäten und innehat zusätzlich eine Gastprofessur an der Universität Heidelberg in Deutschland. Er ist ein Distinguished Associate des Psychometrics Centre an der University of Cambridge. |
So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.
ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.
To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them.
Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ.
