“Survey of literature on the relationship between learners’ multiple intelligences and academic achievement”

The level of academic achievement of a child at any stage of education depends on the extent to which its natural potentialities are cultivated and developed. Individual differences are reflected in academic progress of students even though all students may be exposed to similar educational environment and facilities in schools. Every student may vary with respect to his/her academic achievement by showing different levels of competence. Such variations may be attributed to a host of factors-innate as well as environmental. Recently cognitive psychologists held that cognition related factors of learners play pivotal role behind their academic achievement. Among the learner related variables of academic achievement, intelligence is thought to be the master factor. Now-a-days, researchers have been taking up studies to identify the profile of multiple intelligences of learners belonging to various educational grades so that it could be nourished in order to optimize their academic achievement. Researchers are also spending much effort to find out whether there exists any relationship between any particular type of intelligence of the learners’ and their level of academic achievement in any particular subject. This paper tries to survey literature on the relationship between the learners’ multiple intelligences and their academic achievement in India and abroad.