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MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE THEORIES. GIVE A CRITIQUE OF THIS. BACK UP YOUR POINTS WITH REFERENCES AND EVIDENCE. Much controversy surrounds the subject of intelligence. Intelligence tests were developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to assess the intelligence of individuals and groups. However, criticisms quickly arose regarding tests due to results being used to justify discrimination between different groups and cultures. Theorists argued that the tests assess verbal, mathematical, and spatial capabilities, but they do not directly examine other abilities that seem to be inherent parts of intelligence: creativity, social understanding, knowledge of one's own strengths and weaknesses and so on. This perspective led Howard Gardner to formulate his theory of Multiple Intelligence. This essay will begin with a background of Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory and critique it. Howard Gardner proposed that people have several kinds of intelligences that are independent of one another, each operating as a...

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