A Study of Pratomsuksa 4 Students’ Multiple Intelligences, Before and After Learning with Visual Art Learning Integration Package

Abstract

Abstract   The objectives of this research are to study and compare students’ four aspects of multiple intelligences namely linguistic intelligence, spatial intelligence, logic - mathematical intelligence, and naturalistic intelligence. The population of this research consists of 185 Pratomsuksa 4 students who were studying in the first semester at Pratoochai School, under Office of Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya Educational Area 1. The students were classified into three groups - excellent and good, fairly, and poor (the numbers of the members of each group were 78, 85, and 22 respectively) - according to their learning achievement in 8 subject groups in the 2007 academic year. Integrated Visual Art Activities Set (IVAS), Integrated Visual Art Activities Set Plan (IVASP), Integrated Visual Art Activities Set Test (IVAST) evaluate students’ four aspects of multiple intelligence were used in data collection. Frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t - test, and one - way ANOVA comparison were used in data analysis.   The findings indicated that;   1.) After participating in Integrated Visual Art Activities Set Plan (IVASP), the students in all groups apparently possessed higher multiple intelligence in all aspects. It was also found that multiple intelligences in all aspects of the students in each group were different at the statistical significance level of 0.01   2.) According to the comparison analysis result with the visual art learning integration package to analyze deviation of overall multiple intelligence among each group, it was found that multiple intelligence in all aspects of the students in each groups was different at the statistical significance level of 0.01   3.) According to the paired study results, the students in the first group (excellent and good) possessed higher multiple intelligences in all aspects than those in the second (fairly) and third (poor) groups at the statistical significance level of 0.01. Meanwhile, the students in the second group apparently possessed higher multiple intelligences in all aspects than those in the third group at the statistical significance level of 0.01.