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Multiple Intelligences Action Research
Summary, Conclusions, &
Recommendations
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
Summary
Although many high
school age students tend to think and learn in
nontraditional ways, American schools still base their instruction
primarily on the verbal-linguistic and logical-mathematical
intelligences. As a result, many students who are not strong in these
traditional intelligences develop poor attitudes toward school and
their academic achievement suffers. The results of this study indicate
that incorporating the multiple intelligences into classroom
instruction helps strengthen students' weaker intelligences, thereby
improving students' attitudes toward learning and students' academic
achievement.
According to the theory of multiple intelligences, intelligences change
with age and with experience (Gardner, 1983). Since our culture places
so much importance on the traditional intelligences and since so many
high school students have strengths in the nontraditional intelligences
(Teele, 1996), it makes sense to incorporate the multiple intelligences
into classroom instruction in order to provide experiences that will
change students' intelligences for the better. |
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