Abstract
This study is aiming at illustrating the extent of multiple intelligences consistency in light of Gardner’s rating with academic disciplines for the students of Al-Balqa Applied University, besides, to collect the study data, multiple intelligences list was established in light of Gardner’s rating in which it is composed, in its final image, of 63 paragraphs distributed to multiple intelligences (linguistic, logical, bodily, personal, social, existential, natural, spatial, and musical), after investigating psychometric properties of the list, they were applied on a sample consists of (550) students (males and females) whom were chosen through random cluster way of the academic disciplines (educational, agricultural, administrative, engineering and medical) at Al-Balqa Applied University. The study findings, moreover, illustrated that prevailing intelligences of the study population sample were consequently as following: (personal, bodily, social existential, spatial, logical, musical, natural, and linguistic). Furthermore, the study has shown inconsistency of multiple intelligences of the students with their academic disciplines’ requirements. As a result, the researcher has recommended a set of recommendations in the light of the study findings.
Highlights
The educational system in many countries of the world has been characterized by betting on the education distinguished by quality, in which the interest has been concentrated on the student’s mental abilities and capabilities as far as possible in addition to ensuring their importance in the development and progress of the society as it is considered the most developmental source at all
This educational system has pursued its concentration on the development and nurturing of students’ minds to be up to expectations to play a vital role in the society which requires the learner to have a sufficient degree of cognitive adjustment, the efforts still have been directed towards vital educational planning to develop curricula and build them on the bases of scientific data results of the contemporary, psychological studies, especially in the field of cognitive psychology
The scientists of education and educational psychology have interested in development of curricula through analysis of learning mechanisms among individuals, in addition to designing the educational models based on individual differences, of which the most
Summary
The educational system in many countries of the world has been characterized by betting on the education distinguished by quality, in which the interest has been concentrated on the student’s mental abilities and capabilities as far as possible in addition to ensuring their importance in the development and progress of the society as it is considered the most developmental source at all. The importance of determining the multiple intelligences of educated persons in the university stage is considered the last step of the individual in the educational ladder before attaching the practical life in the professional field, for instance, if the student can choose the academic specialization that is appropriate to the intelligence type that he has, his achievement will be better, and the university life of him will be full of vitality and activity, he can be able to achieve the higher grades in the specialization which reflected on his own thinking style and how to deal with university courses and curricula that he is going forward toward these courses with an open mind and psychic rushing to a new life to achieve himself and his ambitions and goals. It is difficult for learner to know about all knowledge aspects even these aspects were done with superior mental abilities
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