International Journal of Management, IT and Engineering
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 3

Investigating the relationship between intelligence belief's and high school female student's multiple intelligence in Nagadeh

  • Author:
  • Zohre Esmaeily, Mozaffar Sharifzadeh
  • Total Page Count: 9
  • Page Number: 116 to 124

*Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Payame Noor University, Iran

**Department of Educational Sciences, Payame Noor University, Iran

Online published on 25 March, 2015.

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between intelligence beliefs and high school female students’ multiple intelligence in Naqade. The population of this study are the fourth grade high school female students in Naqadeh who are 316 participants and the volume of the sample according to Morgan's table are 90 participants. Stratified randomization is used for the samples. The method in this description study is correlational and in order to measure intelligence beliefs, the 14-item questionnaire of intelligence beliefs measurement based on the 5-choice Likert spectrum has been adopted from the book of measurement scale in cognitive psychology (abdollah zade, zare’, 1391), and to measure multiple intelligence, 64 five-choice items based on Likert spectrum has been adopted from Estrenberg's book (2000) translated by Saeedipur, that its face and content validity were evaluated by 4 psychology professors. In order to evaluate the reliability of the questionnaire, Cronbach's alpha index was used in which the computed amount for intelligence beliefs was 72%. The relationship between the variables with regression statistical test was investigated; according to the significance level, the results show that there is a significant relationship between intelligence beliefs and Gardner's multiple intelligence.

Keywords

Learning, Intelligence beliefs, Gardner's multiple intelligence