CORRELATION STUDY BETWEEN LEARNING STYLE

AND MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE AMONG MUSLIM

GIFTED AND TALENTED
BY:
AFIQAH CHE ENDUT
AMIRA AISHA AINUDDIN WAHID

SEMINAR SERANTAU PENDIDIKAN ISLAM KE 5

INTRODUCTION

Gifted and talented students refers

to individuals who are born with
extraordinary abilities and the abilities
refers to the characteristics that inherited
naturally which associated with
the genetic kinship.
(Simonton, 2005).

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 INTRODUCTION

Gagné (2005) stated that an

individual is thought to be
gifted and talented when he
has unique cognitive abilities
and is capable to use them
skillfully.

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 INTRODUCTION

Multiple Intelligence Theory by Neil Fleming's VAK/VARK

Gardner (1993) model
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 OBJECTIVES

11 To investigate the most dominant learning style

practice by Muslim gifted and talented students.

To identify the most dominant multiple intelligence

among Muslim gifted and talented students.
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To determine the correlation between learning style

3 and multiple intelligence among Muslim gifted and
4 talented students.

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 METHODOLOGY

Quantitative Study

Questionnaires and Survey

Analysis of Data & Correlation

165
students

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 METHODOLOGY
VARK instruments
 A learning preference
assessment tool
 Consists of 16 multiple
choice questions, each
having four choices.
 All choices correspond to
the four sensory modalities
which are measured by
Visual, Auditory, Reading or
Writing and Kinesthetics
Multiple Intelligence Self
Inventory (MISI)
 Based on Howard Gardner’s
theory of Multiple
Intelligences.
 Consists of 50 questions in
measuring 10 components
of multiple intelligences.
 Determining the strongest
intelligence for the individual.
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 METHODOLOGY

165 students of Kolej

PERMATA Insan were
Data collected from both
given the surveys to be
instruments were
answered for 20
analysed inferentially
minutes each which are :
and descriptively by
• Multiple Intelligences
using Microsoft Excel.
survey
• Learning styles survey

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 RESULT & FINDINGS
Learning Styles : Visual, Auditory, Reading, Kinesthetic

33% 28% 12% 48%

Visual Auditory Reading Kinesthetic

52 students out of 45 students use 19 out of 158 76 students are

158 students are this method in students are using dominant in
using visual type of learning process. this method. Kinesthetics type of
learning. learning style.

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 RESULT & FINDINGS
Multiple Intelligences

Total Multiple Intelligences Frequency Percentage(%)

Verbal Linguistics 4 2.53
Interpersonal 5 3.16
Intrapersonal 7 4.43
Spatial-Visual 7 4.43
Nature 8 5.06
Logical Mathematics 19 12.03
158 Moral 24 15.19
Musical 28 17.72
Kinethetics 33 20.89
Spiritual 69 43.67
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 DISCUSSION
MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE & GIFTED AND TALENTED STUDENTS

The most dominant multiple

intelligences between Muslim
gifted and talented students is
spiritual with count of 69 students
(43.67%).

The second ranked of multiple

intelligent is kinesthetics, with
statistics of 33 students (20.87%).
Third highest count of Multiple
Intellingence in Kolej PERMATA
Insan students’ is Musical that
consists of 28 students.

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 DISCUSSIONS
VARK LEARNING STYLES IN GIFTED AND TALENTED STUDENTS

The most dominant learning style

among students in Kolej PERMATA
Insan is kinesthetics learning style,
with statistics of 48.10% (76 individuals)
of the students using this method to
study and process information
effectively.

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 DISCUSSIONS
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEARNING STYLES AND MULTIPLE
INTELLIGENCES

This study found no significant correlation between multiple intelligence and learning styles.

Supported by Gardner (1999), which states an intelligence is a ‘‘biopsychological potential to

process information that can be activated in a cultural setting to solve problems or create
products that are of value in a culture’’.

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