IQ (Intelligence Quotient) Testing was invented by Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon. The first Intelligence scale was created in 1905. At that time, the French government commissioned a test to assess which student was more likely to succeed and which students were more likely to fail in the French school system.
Lewis Terman made some revisions to this assessment in 1930 and renamed it the Intelligence Test. During this time, intelligence quotient tests were used to measure childrens mental age against their chronological age.
Our school systems have come to rely on IQ and other standardized tests. This kind of testing puts a great deal of focus on verbal-linguistic and math-logical intelligences, but they have left out other types of intelligences.
In 1983, Dr. Howard Gardner stated that intelligence consists of three key components:
1. The ability to create an effective service or product that is of value to ones community or culture.
2. A set of skills that enable a person to find solutions to problems encountered in life.
3. Having the potential for creating solutions for problems, and setting up systematic methods to enable people...
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