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Sternberg'S Successful Intelligence Theory and WICS Model

Robert Sternberg developed the successful intelligence theory and WICS model as alternatives to traditional views of intelligence. The successful intelligence theory proposes that memory, analytical, creative, and practical skills are all important for success, not just memory and analytical skills as traditionally believed. The WICS model views intelligence as fluid abilities to learn from experience and adapt, including wisdom, intelligence, creativity, and synthesized abilities. Teachers can apply the WICS model by teaching analytically, creatively, practically, and for wisdom, as well as assessing students based on these different abilities.

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Sternberg'S Successful Intelligence Theory and WICS Model

Robert Sternberg developed the successful intelligence theory and WICS model as alternatives to traditional views of intelligence. The successful intelligence theory proposes that memory, analytical, creative, and practical skills are all important for success, not just memory and analytical skills as traditionally believed. The WICS model views intelligence as fluid abilities to learn from experience and adapt, including wisdom, intelligence, creativity, and synthesized abilities. Teachers can apply the WICS model by teaching analytically, creatively, practically, and for wisdom, as well as assessing students based on these different abilities.

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MODULE 17

STERNBERG's
Successful Intelligence
Theory and WICS
Model
Robert J. Sternberg

Is a cognitive psychologist
who is currently the Provost
and Professor of Psychology at
the Oklahoma State University
BA, summa cumlaude, Yale
University 1972
Has 13 honorary doctorate
degrees including one
conferred by De La Salle
University, Manila Philippines
in 2011
INTRODUCTION

Robert Sternberg did extensive work in the field of intelligence. As a


youngster, he had difficulty with intelligence test. He did not perform
well on such tests. This might have fueled his interest in the field that led
him to come up with the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence in the 1980's.
Over the years, his theory evolved from the more complicated,
componential Triachic Theory to the simpler, successful Intelligence
Theory. Recently he proposed the WICS (Wisdom, Intelligence,
Creativity, Synthesized) Model. It is alternative paradigm to deliver
more relevant admission, instruction and assessment in education. This
module will introduce you to the theory and model.
Sternberg's Successful
Intelligence Theory and WICS
Model
1 2 3
-Wisdom
-Memory
-Analytical -Teaching Analytically
-Analytical
Intelligence -Teaching Creatively
Intelligence
-Creative -Teaching Pactically
-Creative Intelligence
Intelligence -Teaching for Wisdom
-Practical Intelligence
-Synthesized

Successful Applying the WICS


WICS Model
Intelligence Model
Successful Intelligence Theory
Memory Skills
01 Help us recall facts and pieces of information. It helps
us retain the knowledge we acquire.
Analytical Skills
02 Help the person determine if a certain idea is good.

Creative Skills
03 Allow a person to come up with a new idea, usually to
answer a need or solve a problem. It makes one flexible and
able to adjust to changes in one's situation.
Practical Skills
04 Enable a person to apply what one has learned. It also allows
one to carry through or implement a plan.
Sternberg believed that traditional views of intelligence
focused heavily on memory and analytical skills. This
traditional view led to teaching strategies that focused
mainly on memory and analytical skills as well. It naturally
followed that assessment of learning likewise concentrated
heavily on these two skills.

Memory and analytical skills are very much


necessary. Being able to recall information or
have knowledge is needed to begin thinking
creatively. One cannot apply knowledge which he
cannot remember. Analysis is important before
one can think of new better ideas. However,
memory and analytical skills should not be the
only focus of education.
Sternberg also emphasized creative and
practical intelligence. Creativity is what
moves people forward. Creativity gives birth
to new and better solutions to problems.
Without creativity we will get trapped in
things and ways that don't work anymore.
Practical intelligence, on the other hand,
make us apply what we have learned. It gets
us to actually do what needs to be done.
According to Sternberg, successful
intelligence is "the ability to succeed
in life, given one's own goals, within
one's environmental contexts."

It is vital that we remember what we learn (memory);


use critical thinking to evaluate the things we learn
(analytical); be innovative in finding better ways of
doing things and solving problems (creative); and
apply and put to action what we learn (practical).
In the WICS model, intelligence
is viewed as a set of fluid abilities
The WICS Model to learn from experience and to
adapt to one's surroundings.
Individuals possess abilities that
can be nurtured into
competencies and further
cultivated into expertise. The
WICS is more recent model of
how humans think and reason that
can help us understand how
students will learn effectively.
WICS stands to Wisdom, Intelligence, Creativity,
Synthesized.
Sternberg (2010) described the WICS Model as follows:

"The basic idea is that citizens of the world need creativity to


form a vision of where they want to go and to cope with
changes in the environment, analytical intelligence to a
certain whether their creative ideas are good ones, practical
intelligence to implement their ideas and to persuade others of
the value of their ideas, and wisdom in order to ensure that the
ideas will help achieve some ethically-based common good,
over the long and short terms, rather than just what is good for
them and their families and friends.”
Sternberg presents a model for education that is relevant to
the need of the times. Time and again the world has seen
leaders in countries, corporations, religious groups and other
institutions who have been considered intelligent. They were
capable of serious analysis of issues and problems.
Your role as a teacher is not to educate the mind alone,
but to educate the soul as well. Accept this not just as a job
but embrace it as a mission.

Sternberg proposed that while education


develop analytical and practical intelligence
as well as creativity, wisdom should be an
integral part of the whole process.
Applying the WICS Model
One way that you can apply the
The uses of the WICS WICS model in instruction is
model include admission, when you reflect and make
instruction, and choices on the tasks and
assessment. We shall activities that you will give to
focus only on the model's teach and assess your students.
instructional and You may choose to teach
assessment uses. analytically, creatively,
practically as well as teach for
wisdom.

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