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Robert Sternberg || Adaptive Intelligence

The Psychology Podcast

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Is Psychometrics Still Important?

i just published an article in the new scientist, ta, of our kinds of test items. Our tests are very different from s. They're like tests of creativity. Are greated by rubricks for how novel and useful the responses are. A test of wisdom, are greate for the extent to which your answer helps to promote a common good. i think for things that matter in life, not justbeset'scheapanyeah, fair enough. The id ofs ddoesn't knthedsng bcausif mean by testing giving kids trivial, uh, inconsequential, unemotionally arrousing, artificial academic problems.

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