Students Multiple Intelligences and Special Program for the Arts Academic Performance

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Different kinds of programs are being imposed in public schools and one of them is Special Program in the Arts wherein students performed different disciplines. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the multiple intelligences and the academic performance achievement level of high school SPA students based on Gardner's multiple intelligences theory.

METHODS

This is a descriptive correlation study. To achieve this purpose, high school students of Tagaytay City Science National High School was used by judgment or purposive sampling, and all of them filled up the Gardner's multiple intelligences questionnaire. For analysis of collected data, descriptive statistics including Mean and Standard Deviation were used.

RESULTS

The study revealed that multiple intelligences such as logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, verbal-linguistic, intrapersonal, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal and naturalistic have a significant positive relationship with academic performance achievement of students. Moderate inter-correlation exists between verbal-linguistic and visual-spatial intelligences and academic performance achievement. It became clear that multiple intelligences like visual-spatial, verbal-linguistic and interpersonal statistically significant and were able to predict academic performance achievement, whereas musical intelligence was a negative predicator for academic performance achievement of students.

DISCUSSIONS

Identifying the multiple intelligences of secondary SPA students, the differences according to the academic achievement level of the students will contribute an awareness to the self-knowledge and abilities of the students as well as to develop suggestions for programs to enhance their academic achievement levels and to be a reference for further studies.