<Survey> Multiple Intelligences

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shdw

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To answer this survey requires about 10 minutes of your time. Take this multiple intelligences test, found here:

http://literacyworks.org/mi/assessment/findyourstrengths.html

When you are finished, read through the results.

Question: If both you and your instructor took this test and compared: Would you find it helpful in your teaching or learning?

Students: Do you feel something like this might be beneficial to you, why or why not?

Instructors: Would this be a nuisance or do you feel it would have benefits and help your teaching/presentation?

Please post any feedback you may have. If you wish to read more about this you can go to a post I made on the general forums recently, here:

http://forums.jetcareers.com/1360616-post48.html
 
The survey taught me that my top two strengths were logic/math, and body movement. I can't sit still. Dang small airplanes. :rotfl:
 
Wow, it said my top one was music. I do play piano and trumpet, but other than that, everything else it said couldn't be much farther from the truth.
 
N18040 said:
Wow, it said my top one was music. I do play piano and trumpet, but other than that, everything else it said couldn't be much farther from the truth.
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Did you answer it properly? 1 being lowest on the far left and 5 being the highest on the far right? That doesn't make sense at all, I haven't had one person's analysis be wrong yet.



If you answer no, please give some real feedback (N18040 this isn't directed at you). Saying you have a short attention span sounds a bit like "I'm lazy." When given the opportunity to improve ones ability to teach, even if it won't prove to help, a teacher is someone who would take the time to do it.

Let me ask you this: You want your students to do their work to improve their piloting, right?

If you answered yes to that: Don't you think it would be a fair for them to expect you to do work to improve your methods of teaching?

Maybe I am crazy, but that seems like a pretty logical expectation.
 
Between 3 and 2 for everything. My highlights were Self was top, Spatial was second, and Body Movement+Math/Logic were the same in 3rd.

Self definitely is true although I'm not very self-confident in certain situations. Flying you bet I am...but I'm not the best in working with people even though I am an instructor. There's times when I doubt myself and I don't know all of the information that I need to convey the correct idea to the student.

Spatial....for some reason I've got really good SA. I pride myself in that. Probably from all of that thinking that I get from the Self....

I used to like Math until college. I was so happy it was over. I was pretty good at it though. Body movement...I like going out to the club every once in a while but that's about it.
 
shdw said:
If both you and your instructor took this test and compared: Would you find it helpful in your teaching or learning?
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Probably no more than asking your student how he/she learns best. I'm not sure these internet tests are any more valid than asking "what's your sign?"
 
tgrayson said:
Probably no more than asking your student how he/she learns best. I'm not sure these internet tests are any more valid than asking "what's your sign?"
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Seems to be gaining a lot of steam in the educational world. Just to note, this may be an internet test, but it is directly sourced from dozens of psychology books. I believe you can view all the sources if you go to the practice section, each of those sections links the ideas/sources.

I first took this test from a psychology book "Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom" back in college. Needless to say, filling it out on paper then using a key to find out your MI's is a far more tedious process than this online version.

I would intend for it to trigger the discussion of how a student learns but also compare that to how the teacher teaches for a more complete discussion. This would merely be a guide to that discussion.

Finally, I find many people really don't know themselves as well as they think. They can read about themselves and say, "oh that is me." But when asked to explain themselves, their response is often a biased, less accurate, and less productive source of information.
 
Though people do learn in different ways, instructors will probably still teach in their preferred method first. Having taught for 10 years, I have never really used this, as in testing, then modifying. What I do is teach in the way I feel most comfortable, then go back and teach it in a different way for any students that do not get it and continue until they do.
 
amjon said:
Though people do learn in different ways, instructors will probably still teach in their preferred method first. Having taught for 10 years, I have never really used this, as in testing, then modifying. What I do is teach in the way I feel most comfortable, then go back and teach it in a different way for any students that do not get it and continue until they do.
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I notice your total flight time is low, so I am assuming here, but is your teaching in a classroom environment?
 
amjon said:
Yes, I teach elementary.
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Understood then, it would be impossible for you to really utilize this tool since all 7 intelligences will be present in a classroom. What are your thoughts to its application in a one on one environment though? If you were privately tutoring a student for 100 hours.
 
shdw said:
Seems to be gaining a lot of steam in the educational world.
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The idea of multiple intelligences isn't new, but I think there is a lot more to identifying what they are than taking a simple test. As you pointed out, self reporting isn't that accurate. These tests just spit back out to you what you already believe about yourself, so it isn't surprising that people feel that they're accurate.

I've taken tests along these lines and they took a couple of days. And they didn't rely on self-reporting, but involved demonstrating actual physical and mental skills, such as putting pegs in holes in a fixed amount of time, or defining vocabulary words.
 
shdw said:
Understood then, it would be impossible for you to really utilize this tool since all 7 intelligences will be present in a classroom. What are your thoughts to its application in a one on one environment though? If you were privately tutoring a student for 100 hours.
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One on one it could help to understand your student better. If the student it having trouble understanding, it could help you better plan what may work. Learning styles would probably be more helpful though.
 
tgrayson said:
I've taken tests along these lines and they took a couple of days. And they didn't rely on self-reporting, but involved demonstrating actual physical and mental skills, such as putting pegs in holes in a fixed amount of time, or defining vocabulary words.
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I highly doubt I will convince people to do that. Seems some are too lazy to even take a 10 minute test. :-\

Where do you go to take such a test? I would be interested in doing this myself if I can.


Amjon: I always took learning styles/MI to kind of go hand and hand. By this I mean, if you know a persons MIs you can fairly accurately predict the learning styles they use.
 
shdw said:
Did you answer it properly? 1 being lowest on the far left and 5 being the highest on the far right? That doesn't make sense at all, I haven't had one person's analysis be wrong yet.
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I did try to answer it correctly. I can't say that it was completely wrong, but I am pretty sure that the questions that brought up my experiences playing instruments skewed the results.

As far as using this while instructing, first let me say that I am just a newbie instructor, so there are people on here that know what they are doing much better than I do. I don't see this having a big practical application in instructing. Yeah you can teach someone better if you know how they learn best, but you can also figure that out by getting to know them.
 
29. My outstanding coordination and balance let me excel in high-speed activities.

Does flying C-152's count as a high speed activity?
 
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