Ellen, Again thank you for these comments about intelligence. There are some many different forms of intelligence and we as instructors need to help our students to identify and then refine what these intelligences are. I have been researching for the past 30 years ways of assessing intelligence other than through IQ testing. I have developed an assessment called the Talent Key which identifies the three dominant intelligences of the different intelligences that Howard Gardner is found in his research. Helps my students to see how they process information and how they can expand their use of their intelligences to become problem solvers. Gary Gary Meers, Ed.D.