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MEASURING SCIENTIFIC WISDOM

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Wong_cornell_0058O_11107.pdf (374.76 KB)
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https://doi.org/10.7298/901m-y294
https://hdl.handle.net/1813/103492
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Author
Wong, Chak Haang
Abstract

The current study developed measures of scientific wisdom as practiced within the field ofgeneral sciences. A total of 125 Cornell undergraduates participated in the study, and we examined the relationship among the following scales: Scientific Reasoning, Scientific Wisdom, Scientific Creativity, a typical-performance scale of self-assessed wisdom scale (SAWS), and three psychometric tests. The results showed that the first three scales formed one clear principal component while the psychometric tests of intelligence, SAT and ACT scores, and GPA formed another, which suggested that the scientific tests we created assessed abilities that were different from general intelligence (g). This finding implied that colleges and universities that are seeking future scientists would want to consider supplementing the g-based conventional tests with tests that measure skills related to scientific reasoning, scientific wisdom, and scientific creativity.

Description
38 pages
Date Issued
2020-12
Keywords
cognitive scales
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college admissions tests
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general intelligence
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scientific creativity
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scientific reasoning
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scientific wisdom
Committee Chair
Sternberg, Robert J.
Committee Member
Bian, Lin
Degree Discipline
Human Development
Degree Name
M.A., Human Development
Degree Level
Master of Arts
Type
dissertation or thesis
Link(s) to Catalog Record
https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/13312194

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