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Multiple Intelligences Action Research

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American schools have traditionally favored those students who excel in the linguistic and analytical arenas because these skills are highly valued in our culture. Unfortunately, this traditional approach leaves certain students behind to stumble blindly through an educational system that ignores their unique abilities. This action research study seeks to show that instructional activities that incorporate the multiple intelligences can improve students' attitudes toward learning and students' academic achievement in English class.

by Michele R. Acosta

Apparatus

Data for the study was collected in three ways. Pre and post attitude surveys were created for the study and were administered to students. The introductory survey consisted of ten statements and a Leikert scale for each statement. The statements were designed to determine students' attitudes toward learning in English class. Several statements were also designed to determine students' initial reactions to the concepts involved in the multiple intelligences. The closing survey consisted of the same ten statements as the introductory survey with 11 additional statements. The additional statements were designed to determine students' attitudes toward and understanding of the multiple intelligences in the classroom. A pre and post analytical writing sample, adapted from Kahn, Walter and Johannessen (1984), was also administered to students and was used to determine if students improved in their ability to analyze a work of literature as a result of MI based instruction. Finally, the researcher compared second and third quarter grades as another method of measuring improvement in academic achievement.

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