The determination of visually impaired students' multiple intelligences dimensions and their relationships with success in mathematics

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate visually impaired students' multiple intelligences dimensions and their relationship among gender, sight level and math achievement. In this study "multiple intelligences inventory" was used as data gathering instrument. The study was carried out with 65 visually impaired students studying in sixth, seventh and eighth classes in "visually impaired" schools in Denizli, Erzurum and Gaziantep in the second term of 2007 to 2008 academic year. As a result, it was found that visually impaired students were mostly good at interpersonal intelligence, whereas bad at on visual-spatial intelligence. The study results have also shown that there was a significant relationship between the math achievement of visually impaired students with logical-mathematical intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, spatial intelligence and linguistic intelligence dimensions. ©2011 Academic Journals.