Hello everyone, sorry for not posting anything since creating this blog a while back. As you can tell (if you are reading this before my extreme makeover), this blog is still very bare and boring; but do not worry, I will be using HTML and Javascript (CSS) to make it look a lot nicer with better fonts and other stuff. Also, I will start proper posts very soon (and I mean LIKE REALLY, REALLY soon). However, you will just have to settle for e-learning posts for now. Okay, after getting all of that cleared up, it’s time to get started on the ‘first’ post!
Alright, this post will be Task A of e-learning week 1. What’s Task A, you might ask. Well, I’m supposed to take a multiple intelligence test. Okay, I think that was rather unhelpful because you probably have no idea what a multiple intelligence test is. Fine, here is the link to it:
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/questions/choose_lang.cfm
It’s a bit long to copy so I do apologise since I’ve removed the direct link (sorry, but I think links look messy)!
After taking the multiple intelligences test, my top 2 ‘intelligences’ were spatial and kinaesthetic, followed closely by intrapersonal and logic and with musical and naturalistic coming in jointly last. Unfortunately, due to privacy issues, I shall not be posting the exact chart here. As you can see (actually you can’t see the chart but you understand what I mean right?), my top 2 ‘intelligences’ that can be used in Task B (which I will be posting later), are spatial and intrapersonal.
Firstly, here’s some background information on the multiple intelligences test. In 1983, Dr Howard Gardner, a professor of education at the prestigious Harvard University, suggested that the common way of testing intelligence (IQ), was too ‘limited’. He felt that there was a need to test a broader range of ‘intelligences’ in children and adults. Thus, he came up with 8 ‘main intelligences’ to test. These ‘intelligences’ are logical, kinaesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, musical, naturalistic, spatial and linguistic.
Now, what are some possible implications of this multiple intelligence test? This test is not fully reliable because once the person takes the test and gets his or her results, he or she will probably be thinking: yes, this does seem like me. Then, the person will unconsciously feel implied to follow the results of the test and do things based on the kind of ‘intelligence’ they had even though they were not going to follow the course of action of that particular intelligence (sorry I think this is a little confusing).
To put it simply, the person will tend to act like he or she does possess a strong sense of, let’s say for example naturalistic intelligence, when he or she encounters a particular situation even though he or she would take another course of action. Okay, sorry I think that was also rather confusing so I shall try to give an example. Let’s say that a person who is actually more of a person with a lot of logical intelligence gets the results of the test which say he or she has a lot of spatial intelligence. Then, the person is given a choice of joining either mathematics or drawing competition. The person will most likely feel implied to join the mathematics competition even though he or she is better at drawing simply because the multiple intelligence test showed that he or she is better at logical thinking.
I for one, feel that it can help us make important decisions in life (provided the test is an accurate measure of intelligence). When we are deciding what job to take up, or even which stream to go for in secondary 3, the results for the multiple intelligence test can be considered.
Finally, I think that’s about it for what I feel about the test.
Acknowledgements:
http://www.thomasarmstrong.com/multiple_intelligences.htm
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