Action Research Study: Effects of Multiple Intelligences Based Instruction on Students’ Attitudes and Achievement?--Method

Method

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

Multiple Intelligences Based Instruction: Part 5

During the six week unit, the researcher employed the following multiple intelligences activities designed to improve students' attitudes and academic achievement...

While reading and discussing The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, groups of three or four students were assigned a chapter from the novel. They were asked to select a passage or a series of passages that they would "act out." (See Appendix M for the assignment.)

Students were asked to select passages that they liked and which were important to the development of the chapter and the novel. They were also required to plan and present a rationale in which they explained the reason they selected their passage(s) and the importance of the passage to the novel. They were also asked to consider foreshadowing, symbolism, and characterization when planning their rationales.

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Students were given time in class to collaborate. They used their intrapersonal, verbal-linguistic, and logical-mathematical intelligences in scene selection, their interpersonal and logical-mathematical intelligences in planning and organizing their scene, their interpersonal, verbal-linguistic, and bodily-kinesthetic intelligences to act out the scene, and they used their logical-mathematical and verbal-linguistic intelligences to organize and present their rationales at the end of the scene.

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Multiple Intelligences Action Research

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Multiple Intelligences Based Instruction: Part 5