Intelligence and Personality in School and Educational Psychology

Abstract

(from the chapter) intelligence and personality are fundamental to understanding children's performance in schools / use a 3-dimensional map to organize and describe the research linking individual differences to education and schools / the 1st dimension . . . comprises the educational applications, or uses, of intelligence and personality / the 2nd dimension comprises the distinction between educational and school psychology / the 3rd . . . dimension comprises the psychological domain of the research, which [is] arbitrarily dichotomized into emphases on intelligence vs personality / a brief explanation of each [of the 3 dimensions] is provided to illustrate the ways in which research on intelligence and personality is linked to educational and school psychology (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)