Assessing intelligence can be a perplexing endeavor. How intelligence is defined directly influences the assessment procedures used. Traditionally, intelligence was viewed as a single, static entity. However, reconceptualizations of the nature of intelligence are changing this view. The present study attempted to validate an instrument that teachers may use to assess student abilities in the seven intelligence areas proposed by Howard Gardner (1983).
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