My Multiple Intelligence Test

Multiple Intelligence Tests

The activity given to me was to go on the Enhancing Learning website, however, during class we were able to go to a different website and do an activity, so I decided to write my paper on that activity. I took the Multiple Intelligence test from the Ablongman.com website and found some interesting results. I thought that it would be interesting to take a MI test so I could see if I was in the correct major and was studying what I should be studying. The results showed me that I was in the wrong major and it actually made me somewhat sad.

The reasoning behind a Multiple Intelligence Test is to try and find which learning style best fits for each individual. It was started by Howard Gardner and is mostly helpful for students with learning disabilities and students with Attention Deficit Disorder. Knowing your learning style will help you cope with your weak areas and learn how to go around them as well as learning to build you stronger styles. There are seven different learning styles which include: linguistics, logical-mathematics, visual-spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist.

On the website, it gives a brief paragraph for each learning style that tells you the description of that particular learning style and what areas you are strong in. For example, if you are an interpersonal person the description would be like this, “The ability to work effectively with others, to relate to other people, and display empathy and understanding, to notice their motivations and goals. This is a vital human intelligence displayed by good teachers, facilitators, therapists, politicians, religious leaders and sales people” (Gardner). This is actually one of the learning styles I scored 100 on and was very pleased with this score because I do see myself as a person who can “work effectively with others” and so on.

The MI test was found by going to the www.ablongman.com/lever-duffy3e and then you click on Chapter 1: Theoretical Foundations. After you get to that page you go to the left side and click on “On the Web! Activities” and click on “On the Web! 1.7 Howard Gardner”. Scroll all the way down to the bottom and click on the second to last website under Multiple Intelligence Tests: http://www.nedprod.com/Niall_stuff/intelligence_test.html. After clicking on this website I took the test for my MI.

My test scores basically told me that I was more into logical-mathematics than I was in linguistics. This was rather disturbing since my major is in linguistics. I started to doubt myself because that means something might be wrong with me. The test showed me that we can be strong in some areas and weaker in the styles we thought fit us best. I know that just because this test told me I was not as strong in the linguistics learning style, it doesn’t mean I am not good in that area. It simply means I have other strong styles that I may not be aware of.

It did tell me like I stated above, that I scored a 100 in interpersonal and that is still better than scoring a 77 in logical-mathematics. My top three styles that I scored 100 in were musical, bodily-kinesthetic, and interpersonal. Therefore, I could be a music teacher or even a P.E. teacher. I do know I want to be a dance/cheer coach so that helps me feel a little better. This test helped me narrow down my strengths and weaknesses and I am glad I was able to find my strong learning styles.