By Griff Foley
A complete creation to grownup schooling.
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It is now well-established that many adults act intelligently despite an IQ test result that predicts otherwise. Adulthood is not a period of static or declining intellectual competence but of ongoing, qualitatively different, intellectual and cognitive growth. The nature and diversity of this growth are illustrated in the following examination of three alternative cognitive constructs to IQ. The adult learner and practical intelligence The concept of the existence of practical as opposed to academic intelligence is relatively new in the psychological literature.
They found no correlation between the ability to consistently predict winning horses and IQ. Dube (1982) found high levels of memory and reasoning among illiterate people. In addition, he found that capacity for story recall was higher among illiterate Africans than among comparable American students. Several studies have found that practical intelligence functions best in real-life situations. Lave et al. (1984) studied grocery shoppers and the processes they used to make mathematical calculations.
Expertise research has been carried out in many diverse areas, including taxi-driving (Chase 1983); baseball (Spilich 1979); judicial decision making (Lawrence 1988); bartending (Beach 1984) and medical expertise (Schmidt et al. 1990). Recent research (Stevenson 1994) has extended the expertise model into the milieu of vocational education in a series of UNDERSTANDING ADULT LEARNERS 29 studies, including the development of expertise in apprenticeship courses, technical and further education colleges and problembased learning.