Intelligence Tests and Academic Standing.

Scholastic and Intelligence Tests.

Emotional Intelligence and Academic Success 1 The Relation of Emotional Intelligence to Academic Success

A great deal of excitement surrounds the claim that emotional intelligence predicts success at work, at school, and in relationships. For example, TIME magazine claimed “emotional intelligence may be the best predictor of success in life, redefining what it means to be smart” (1995). Unfortunately, little research has been done to either support or refute this claim. The purpose of this study w...

Tests of Machine Intelligence

Although the definition and measurement of intelligence is clearly of fundamental importance to the field of artificial intelligence, no general survey of definitions and tests of machine intelligence exists. Indeed few researchers are even aware of alternatives to the Turing test and its many derivatives. In this paper we fill this gap by providing a short survey of the many tests of machine i...

On the Authenticity of IELTS Academic Tests

The purpose of this paper was to investigate the authenticity of IELTS academic tests. Bachman and Palmer (1996, p. 23) define authenticity as “the degree of correspondence of the characteristics of a given language test task to the features of a target language task”. Authenticity is then an important aspect of testing since it describes the relationship between the test and the real world. Th...

Emotional Intelligence and Academic Performance of Iranian Senior Dental Students

Background and Aim: Researchers believe that emotional intelligence (EI) is a better predictor of a person’s success in life than intelligent quotient. The aim of the present study was to determine the relationship between the EI and academic performance of senior dental students. Materials and Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study evaluated all senior dental students (n=131) of Tehr...