Robert Sternberg
Robert Sternberg
Robert Sternbergis an American psychologist and psychometrician. He is Professor of Human Development at Cornell University. Prior to joining Cornell, Sternberg was president of the University of Wyoming. He has been Provost and Professor at Oklahoma State University, Dean of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University, IBM Professor of Psychology and Education at Yale University. He is a member of the editorial boards of numerous journals, including American Psychologist. He was the past President for the American Psychological Association...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth8 December 1949
CountryUnited States of America
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Leadership and civic engagement are an important part of the Tufts education, ... People often get themselves into power who are very bright, but not necessarily wise, and maybe even foolish.
Research has shown that IQ type tests account for about 10% of the variation in how successful people are in various aspects of their adult lives.
Our goal is to get better students and send a message that these things really matter. The great students will get in, anyway. This is about the middle.
develop leaders of the next generation, and not necessarily CEOs and presidents.
If Tufts doesn't work out, my safety is to go back to Yale, where I used to teach.
This is a really exciting team to be part of.
The first is, what our studies show is that if kids learn creatively and practically, they learn better, even if the tests are for memory.
There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.
Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success.
I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology.
Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ.
If there's going to be an SAT, it's probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I'm sorry to say, I went to some classes that my kids took and it was clear in school that what they were doing was just SAT training.
But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it.
And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again.