A study of the relationship between high school principals and teachers’ multiple-intelligences and strategic thinking skills

Roya Afrassiabi,Masoumeh Mohammadabadi

doi:10.5267/j.msl.2014.8.031

Abstract

Article history: Received January 20, 2014 Accepted 25 August 2014 Available online August 26 2014 One of the fundamental concerns in education is the management and the improvement of principals and teachers’ performance where selecting intelligent and capable managers can help solve many of present challenges and problems. Various researches conducted so far indicate that commonly the effective principals enjoy some of the essential multiple intelligences. In the present study, the relationship between the three types of Maneh & Semelqan high school principals and teachers’ intelligences, namely, intrapersonal intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, and verbal/linguistic intelligence and the strategic thinking skills was investigated. The research method was descriptive-correlational and the population consisted of 200 subjects of whom 127 were randomly selected. After assigning the subjects to the investigation, 127 questionnaires were distributed among them. Two standard questionnaires of multiple intelligences and strategic thinking skills were administered where Cronbach’s Alpha for the multiple intelligences was 0.893 and that of the strategic thinking skills was 0.944. To analyze the data, the researchers used the SPSS19 package and the EXCELL2013. The frequency distribution tabulation was organized by using descriptive statistics and the Pearson correlation test was based on the inferential statistics employed in the present study. At the end, the findings of study indicated that there was a significant relationship between high school principals and teachers’ multiple intelligences and their strategic thinking skills. © 2014 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved. Intelligence Multiple intelligences Strategic thinking skills

Highlights

The appointment of efficient and suited managers has been one of the most important issues for both the governmental and the private organizations and institutions which, has turned into a great challenge in the third millennium
Hoffman and Frost (2006) studied the relationship between emotional, social, and cognitive intelligence and transformational leadership dimensions and stated that the transformational leadership dimensions include leaders’ appeal, mental stimulation ability, and self-attention ability. They found that there was a significant relationship between cognitive intelligence and mental stimulation ability, between social intelligence and charismatic ability, and between cognitive intelligence and self-attention ability
The population of the study was comprised of all the high school principals and teachers (200 subjects) of Maneh and Semelqan in the educational year of 2013-2014

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The appointment of efficient and suited managers has been one of the most important issues for both the governmental and the private organizations and institutions which, has turned into a great challenge in the third millennium. In their study entitled ‘The effect of Gardner’s Multiple-intelligence-based education on the spelling mistakes of Isfahan third grade primary school students with learning disabilities’, Ranjbari et al (2013) concluded that Gardner’s Multiple-intelligence-based education significantly affected the spelling mistakes of Isfahan third grade primary school students with learning disabilities. These findings were used as an intervening method to eradicate the spelling problems of the students with learning disabilities. The findings showed that there was a significant and direct relationship between the two variables and it was stated that where the staff enjoyed a high strategic thinking level, the managers, too, enjoyed a high emotional intelligence (Aqajani & Rostami, 2013; Aqazadeh, 2006)

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