This article throws light upon the nine main requisites of a good test of intelligence. The requisites are: 1. A Clear Conceptual Frame 2. Testing Conditions 3. Item Characteristics 4. Psychometric Characteristics 5. Range of Difficulty Level 6. Objectivity of Scoring 7. Reliability 8. Validity 9. Norms. Requisite # 1. A Clear Conceptual Frame: While intelligence testing as a practice, [...]
After reading this article you will learn about the scientific views on intelligence based on empirical evidence. Measurement-Based Views on Intelligence: One of the earliest psychologists who studied the problem of intelligence was E.L. Thorndike, who is much more known for his work on the trial and error theory of learning and his epoch-making and ingenious experiments with cats. According [...]
After reading this article you will learn about the classical views on intelligence. While scientific and empirical attempts to understand and define "intelligence" are barely a hundred years old, philosophers had always tried to understand, "intelligence" and there were different approaches. The earliest view of intelligence was that it was a very general capacity, endowed in people to different degrees. [...]