Defining emotional intelligence in music education.

Psychometric theories of human intelligence have previously sought to understand the structure of intellectual functioning by examining the form of intelligence and attempting to identify its component parts. Generally, much of the investigation of this phenomenon has been based in pencil-and-paper tests of mental abilities that include the use of analogies, classifications, and the completion of mathematical series.

Although conventional testing has been somewhat limited to these three basic types of activities, criticism of the theories upon which such tests are based has ...

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