Multiple Intelligences (MI) theory originated in 1983 from the work of Howard Gardner at the Harvard School of Education and Harvard Project Zero. This theory rejects as inadequate traditional measures of intelligence or aptitude such as the Stanford Binet Test or SAT for pre-admission to College. Rather, children should be evaluated by what they can do, not what they can not do. In a nutshell, MI theory is a "pluralized way of understanding intellect". Advances in cognitive science, developmental psychology and neuroscience suggest that each person's intelligence, as it has been traditionally considered, is made of autonomous faculties or intelligences that work in concert with each other. Howard Gardner (1983, 1993, 1999) believes that we have multiple intelligences, rather than a general intelligence that underlies performance in all tasks. In arguing that there are distinct and separate components to intelligence Gardner offers nothing particularly new. However, what is new......

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Title: Education
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