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Karim Hajhashemi

2010

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A Validation Study Of The Persian Version Of Mckenzie's (1999) Multiple Intelligences Inventory To Measure Mi Profiles Of Pre-University Students, Karim Hajhashemi, Wong Bee Eng Jan 2010

A Validation Study Of The Persian Version Of Mckenzie's (1999) Multiple Intelligences Inventory To Measure Mi Profiles Of Pre-University Students, Karim Hajhashemi, Wong Bee Eng

Karim Hajhashemi

Traditionally, intelligence was viewed as a single static entity. Revolutionizing the once-dominated “single-static entity” conceptualization, Gardner initially (1983) proposed his theory of Multiple intelligences (MI) that encompasses seven different areas of intelligence (verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical-rhythmic, visual-spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal), and later on added the eighth and ninth areas (naturalist and existential) in 1999. Based on the theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI), a person may be viewed as intelligent in any of these areas, and the identification of the dominant intelligence type has proven to have pedagogic implications. McKenzie’s MI questionnaire (1999) is one of the established tools to identify …