RELATIONSHIP OF MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE WITH THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF STUDENTS AT UNIVERSITY LEVEL

Abstract

This Study was designed to investigate the relationship of multiple intelligence with the academic achievements among university students. The main purpose of this study was to overview the relationship of multiple intelligence with the academic achievement of students at university level. It was descriptive correlational in nature in which scientific method used to achieve the research objectives. The first objective of this study is to identify the multiple intelligence level of university students, second objective of this study is to identify the academic achievement of university students and the third objective is to investigate the relationship of multiple intelligence and academic achievements of university students. The population of the study consisted on public and private universities of Wah Cantt and Taxila. A stratified random sampling of the student data from private and public universities was used in this investigation. The study was delimited to Bachelor level students only. The "Simple Multiple Intelligence Inventory" created by Gardner, which included 8 sub-scales, was utilized in this study to measure multiple intelligence. The student academic achievements were measured through their results of Bachelors performance. After data collection it was analyzed with the help of SPSS software by applying various statistical tests such as, Mean, SD and Pearson Correlation. The nature of this study was quantitative and correlational. In this study, data from the students gathered using a questionnaire that is based on an evaluation of Gardner theory of Multiple Intelligence.The institution's examination records was used to compile the student's achievement data.