Academic Intelligence
Characteristics
- Problems are formulated by other people
In academic intelligence, there are preset problems created by other people in testing or proving such intelligence. This has been done to evaluate the level of academic intelligence that a person has with relation to the answers.
- Arguments and point of views are clearly defined
Specific ideas and thoughts are based on facts and what has being known. Academic intelligence thus set a standard on a specific problem or discussion.
- Move toward all information needed for the solution
As a factual matter, it always has a corresponding solution to the problem. Academic intelligence has also predetermined information for such solution.
- There has only one right and approved answer
There could be no other considerations on answers other than the perceived solution. This is very true to literature and what has already been known. There would only be one exact answer acceptable.
- It does not depend on ordinary experience
Academic intelligence feeds itself on recognized and acknowledged matters. It rejects and excludes matters from experiences.
Everyday Intelligence
Characteristics
- Requires problem recognition and formulation
Problems should initially be documented and created basing on what is being encountered. It will be the basis for reoccurrence of a particular experience.
- Problems to be solved are inadequately defined
Since experiences acquired in everyday intelligence vary, problems to be solved seem to be insufficiently definite.
- Necessitate the need for gathering information
It calls for the practical output and realistic endeavor in obtaining information.
- There would be a lot of acceptable answers to a problem
It would be like a case to case basis. A specified issue could have many acceptable answers and solutions.
- It is dependent on the past and everyday experiences
Everyday intelligence will develop along with its reliance to what has been experienced and what has being experience as of the moment.
- It needs personal effort of participation and contribution
As practical as it is, everyday intelligence requires personal involvement and participation in achieving answers and solution to a defined subject.
Discussion:
The two types of intelligence characterized and classified in the above statements are apparently in the contrary. Most of the characteristics are to some extent opposite to the other. While it has been perceived that analytical intelligence is synonymous to academic intelligence, however, argues the there is a big difference between them.
There are other contrasting ideas on this matter. People often say that success in life and career is based on good IQ, and that they can only achieve their goals in life with a high test score or high IQ. Conversely, in her own experience, IQ and high test scores do not determine how well an individual will succeed in life.
In relation to Sternberg’s Theory of Intelligence
Robert J. Sternberg developed the Triarchic Theory of Human Intelligence that includes three sub-theories: Analytical, Creative, and Practical. The first one, Analytical facet is considered by Sternberg to be the reflection of how an individual relates to the internal world. This Analytical Intelligence (Academic skills), Sternberg believes, is based on the joint operations of metacomponents and performance components and knowledge acquisition components of intelligence. This statement from Sternberg agrees from the above characteristics of Academic Intelligence that in the knowledge acquisition component, learning is based on memorizing things in our learning capacity.
With Sternberg’s third sub-theory, Practical Intelligence, it is the contextual aspect of intelligence that reflects how the individual relates to the external world. This sub-theory is apparently what is called Everyday Intelligence that involves the person’s ability to grasp, understand and deal with everyday tasks. As characterized above, Everyday intelligence is gained through adaptation to, shaping of, and selection of real-world environments relevant to one’s life.
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