The relationship between academic and practical intelligence : a case study in Kenya

By Robert J. Sternberg, C. Nokes, P. Geissler, R. Prince, Frederick Okatcha, D. Bundy, Elena L. Grigorenko. 2001

332 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Robert J. Sternberg
2. Jelte M. Wicherts
3. H.L.J. van der Maas
4. Conor V. Dolan
5. Richard J. Haier
6. Elena L. Grigorenko
7. J. Rushton
8. Rex E. Jung

In Social Psychology

1. Robert J. Sternberg
2. Elena L. Grigorenko
3. H.L.J. van der Maas
4. Conor V. Dolan
5. Richard J. Haier
6. Jelte M. Wicherts
7. Rex E. Jung
8. J. Rushton

Citations in the corpus

• Cultural Intelligence and Successful Intelligence (2006, methodology): “We devised a test of practical intelligence for adaptation to the environment (see Sternberg & Grigorenko, 1997; Sternberg et al., 2001).”
• A systematic literature review of the average IQ of sub-Saharan Africans (2010, background): “In another study (Sternberg et al., 2001), rural children from Kenya were given the Mill–Hill vocabulary scale, but English was not the home language of the children.”
• Economic Development and Local Ecological Knowledge: A Deadlock? Quantitative Research from a Native Amazonian Society (2007, background): “There is also a consistent negative association between local ecological knowledge and characteristics associated with acculturation, such as schooling, academic skills, and fluency in the national language (Benz et al., 2000; Hum Ecol (2007) 35:371–377 DOI 10.1007/s10745-006-9069-2 V. Reyes-García ”
• Building Empathy, Compassion, and Achievement in the Jigsaw Classroom (2002, background): “In collaboration with others (Sternberg et al., 2001), I was involved in studies of practical intelligence for adaptation to the environment.”
• Math in a Cultural Context: Two Case Studies of a Successful Culturally Based Math Project (2005, background): “Thus, the curriculum includes a variety of cognitive processes: analytic, creative, and practical (Sternberg et al. 2001), tapping into different learning modalities.”
• The Parieto-Frontal Integration Theory (P-FIT) of intelligence: Converging neuroimaging evidence (2007, result): “For example, we found, in a study in rural Kenya, IQ actually may be negatively correlated with the skills needed for adaptive success (Sternberg et al. 2001).”
• Who Are the Bright Children? The Cultural Context of Being and Acting Intelligent (2007, unknown): “They devised a test of practical intelligence for adaptation to the environment (see Sternberg & Grigorenko, 1997; Sternberg et al., 2001).”