Primary School Children’s Multiples Intelligences Assessment

Abstract

This study aims to evaluate Portuguese primary school children multiple intelligences. The participants were 112 children from public Portuguese schools, aged from six to ten years old, 61% male. The instrument used was the Portuguese adaptation of Laura Candler Multiple Intelligence Survey for Kids. After translation and retro translation, the scale was applied to the children, individually or in small groups. The results show that visuospatial, kinesthetic, naturalistic and interpersonal are the intelligences with higher values. There are no differences between gender except on linguisticverbal and musical intelligences, with the girls presenting higher values. Data show the existence of all intelligences proposed by Howard Gardner, with variations among the children.