Exploring the impact of multiple intelligence on interest among high school students

Abstract

Human Intelligence or cognitive competence can be better described as a set of an individual's multiple abilities, talents and mental skill related to a multiple number of domains of knowledge in a particular cultural setting. According to Gardner there are seven independent types of intelligence that grow and develop differently in different people, depending upon their hereditary characteristics or environmental experiences. Interest represents a tendency to select one activity or thing in preference to something else. The Multiple Intelligence questionnaire based on Niall's Multiple Intelligence test and the Interest assessment inventory based on John Holland's theory was used. The sample consisted of 200 students 50 Boys and Girls each form Government School and 50 Boys and Girls each from Private School. There existed significant impact of Multiple Intelligence and its components namely Linguistic, Bodily Kinesthetic, Logical, Intrapersonal and Interpersonal on Interest and its subcomponents namely Realistic, Investigative. Artistic and Enterprising.