Abstract

Although the practical intelligence was proposed as a complementary concept of traditional academic intelligence almost 20 years ago, it's structure and function have never been systematically explored. It has been continuously argued that there is something that goes beyond traditional concept of intelligence. We investigate the implicit theory of academic intelligence and practical intelligence. Following Sternberg and colleagues' approach we discovered the structure of academic intelligence(AI) and practical intelligence(PI) that exist in Korean college students' implicit theory. AI consists of factors of problem solving, self-management, creativity, memory, individualistic tendency, language ability, and self-efficacy. PI consists of factors of self-management, managing social relations, problem-solving, social norm, creativity, language ability, calculating benefit and loss, and dominance. There are four factors that are shared between AI and PI. There seems to be a lot of duplication in the implicit structure of AI and PI in Korean students. But it is also true that they do not converge into one. It turns out that people tend to use their implicity theory of AI and PI in evaluating their own and others' AI and PI.