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A validation study of the Persian version of McKenzie's multiple intelligences inventory to measure profiles of pre-university students


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Hajhashemi, Karim and Wong, Bee Eng (2010) A validation study of the Persian version of McKenzie's multiple intelligences inventory to measure profiles of pre-university students. Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities, 18 (2). pp. 343-355. ISSN 0128-7702; ESSN: 2231-8534

Abstract

Traditionally, intelligence was viewed as a single static entity. Revolutionizing the once-dominated "singlestatic entity" conceptualization, Gardner initially (1983) proposed his theory of Multiple intelligences (MI) that encompasses seven different areas of intelligence (verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical-rhythmic, visual-spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal), and later on added the eighth and ninth areas (naturalist and existential) in 1999. Based on the theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI), a person may be viewed as intelligent in any of these areas, and the identification of the dominant intelligence type has proven to have pedagogic implications. McKenzie's MI questionnaire (1999) is one of the established tools to identify the typology of intelligence. The present study aims to validate the Persian version of the MI Inventory (questionnaire) proposed by McKenzie (1999). This instrument provides an objective measure of MI. This paper describes the validation exercise of the abovementioned questionnaire that involved 173 pre-university students of both genders in Tehran. In addition, the variables gender and discipline were also considered in this study. The findings of the study indicate that overall, the Persian version of the questionnaire has a high reliability. In addition, the results show a moderate to high relationship between gender and MI profiles of the students.


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Item Type: Article
Subject: Intelligence
Subject: Multiple intelligences
Divisions: Faculty of Modern Language and Communication
Publisher: Universiti Putra Malaysia Press
Keywords: Validation study; Persian version; McKenzie's multiple intelligences inventory to measure profiles; Pre-University students
Depositing User: Ms. Nida Hidayati Ghazali
Date Deposited: 09 Jan 2012 06:12
Last Modified: 21 Oct 2015 00:37
URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/12895
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