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Research on another alternative exam, this one written by Robert Sternberg, a psychologist at Yale, asks students to perform tasks reflecting their creativity and practicality. In one section, students write the caption for a cartoon or design the logo for a company. In another, they are asked how they would handle requesting a letter of recommendation from a teacher or sharing rent payments on an apartment. The test, which will be given to 1,400 students this spring, is being paid for by the College Board, the people behind the SAT. Even they realize, it seems, that some folks...
...Research on another alternative exam, this one written by Robert Sternberg, a psychologist at Yale University, asks students to perform tasks reflecting their creativity and practicality. In one section, students write the caption for a cartoon or design the logo for a company. In another, they are asked how they would handle requesting a letter of recommendation from a teacher or sharing rent payments on an apartment...
...proliferation and pruning of synapses--are far too poorly understood to guide educators. Meanwhile, students of cognition, even those who give Gardner much credit, cite research that contradicts him. "The different intelligences show correlations in many cases, and within intelligence, there is a lack of unity," said Robert Sternberg, a professor of psychology and education at Yale. In other words, some of Gardner's intelligences do not seem to be independent faculties, while other intelligences divide up into more than one faculty...
...wayfilmmakers intended." There's some hope left. Butbefore we get too excited and lose sight of whythe restoration effort had to occur in the firstplace, just remember what Welles had to say abouthis troubles: I'm not bitter about Hollywood'streatment of me, but over its treatment ofGriffith, von Sternberg, Von Stroheim, BusterKeaton and a hundred others...
...Conspiracy Theory Award: to Shlomo Z. Sternberg's "Math 128: Lie Algebras," which proves just what we in the humanities been saying all along. We have our doubts about that geometry thing...