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. [...]
After reading this article you will learn about the intelligence tests and measurement of intelligence. It is perhaps not too much of an exaggeration to say that psychologists have spent more effort and time on developing tests of intelligence than on understanding what is intelligence. This is evidenced by the fact that there are varieties and varieties of intelligence tests, [...]
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, [...]