Completed: The Value of the Theory of Successful Intelligence for Predicting the Effectiveness of Schools as Intelligent Systems

Principal Investigators: R.J. Sternberg and E.L. Grigorenko
Project Coordinator: Linda Jarvin
Project Director: Steve Stemler

Description: When we think of schools, often we think of the parts summing to a whole. But anyone with experience working in schools knows that often the parts sum to less than the whole. Sometimes a school has good students, good staff, good physical facilities, and yet the atmosphere and sometimes the outcomes of the school don't do justice to the quality of the individual parts. In this study we will be looking at the attributes of "intelligent schools." What are the attributes of schools that work well as a whole in comparison with those that do not, given comparable quality of the individual parts? Thus we are examining the emerging properties of schools that are "successfully intelligent" as a system, over and beyond the successful intelligence of, say, the faculty or the students looked at from an individual perspective. This research is conducted in collaboration with the Temple University.

Funding Agency: Office of Educational Research and Improvement
IRB Approval by: Yale University Faculty of Arts and Science Committee on Research Involving Human Subjects
Funding Period: 2001 - 2005
Award Amount: $495,927

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