The purpose was to investigate university students' representation of academic intelligence with regard to the subject in which they are majoring. A total of 235 undergraduates, aged 20 to 26, filled out a questionnaire in which they were requested to drink of tile prototype of tile ''intelligent student'' in their major and to rate on a 5- point scale how close each of the various intellectual abilities involved inacademic courses is to such a prototype. Analyses showed that die ''intelligent student'' was a multicomponential concept including both thinking and expressive abilities. Furthermore, the definition of an intelligent student varied as a function of the undergraduates' academic major: more precisely, students tend to overvaluate die specific abilities linked to their own major.
Antonietti, A., Iafrate, R., Meazza, F., THE INTELLIGENT STUDENT, in Antonietti, A., Ianello, P. (ed.), REPRESENTING THE MIND. A COLLECTION OF INSTRUMENTS TO ASSESS NAIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL CONCEPTIONS, Polimetrica, Monza 2008: 215- 222 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/19619]
THE INTELLIGENT STUDENT
Antonietti, Alessandro;Iafrate, Raffaella;
2008
Abstract
The purpose was to investigate university students' representation of academic intelligence with regard to the subject in which they are majoring. A total of 235 undergraduates, aged 20 to 26, filled out a questionnaire in which they were requested to drink of tile prototype of tile ''intelligent student'' in their major and to rate on a 5- point scale how close each of the various intellectual abilities involved inacademic courses is to such a prototype. Analyses showed that die ''intelligent student'' was a multicomponential concept including both thinking and expressive abilities. Furthermore, the definition of an intelligent student varied as a function of the undergraduates' academic major: more precisely, students tend to overvaluate die specific abilities linked to their own major.
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