Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the Multiple Intelligences profiles of the students at junior secondary school in Makassar. The Multiple Intelligences Inventory was used to identify the dominant intelligence among the students. The sample of this research was 302 junior secondary schools students in Makassar Indonesia who willing to participated in this study. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to investigate the students’ MI profiles. The results of this study showed that all intelligences were possessed by the students either in strong, moderate, or weak category. Existential intelligence became the strongest intelligence among the nine types of multiple intelligences. Moreover, other types of multiple intelligences in strong category were interpersonal intelligence and verbal-linguistic intelligence. They were the second and the third intelligence of the strongest intelligences. The other types were in moderate category, were intrapersonal intelligence, musical intelligence, visual-spatial intelligence, logical mathematic intelligence, bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, and naturalist intelligence. In terms of gender, the study revealed, male students significantly possessed stronger in logical-mathematic intelligence, bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, and intrapersonal intelligence, Meanwhile, Female students were significantly stronger in musical intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, and existential intelligence. The results also showed that there was no significant difference between male students and female students in verbal linguistic intelligence, visual-spatial intelligence, and naturalist intelligence.
Highlights
Gardner (1983) views intelligence as a biological factor bound in the environment where the individual lives, the culture which she or he acquires, and the surrounding communities, with whom she or he interacts
The other types were in moderate category, were intrapersonal intelligence, musical intelligence, visual-spatial intelligence, logical mathematic intelligence, bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, and naturalist intelligence
The study revealed, male students significantly possessed stronger in logical-mathematic intelligence, bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, and intrapersonal intelligence, Female students were significantly stronger in musical intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, and existential intelligence
Summary
Gardner (1983) views intelligence as a biological factor bound in the environment where the individual lives, the culture which she or he acquires, and the surrounding communities, with whom she or he interacts. Gardner defines intelligences as a bio-psychological potential to process information that can be activated in a cultural setting to solve problems or create products that are of value in community. It is differs from traditional view in which intelligence was considered as a fixed or static entity where people were only classified as either dull or bright in various degrees of intelligences (Gardner, 1993). 18) argues that the IQ test reveals little about an individual’s potential for further growth, rarely assesses skill in assimilating new information or in solving new problem for each individual. Referring to Gardner’s definition of intelligence, it is needed appropriate adjustment of measuring the human intelligence which can be potentially developed in the future
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