Curriculum Development
Abstract
In this research it has been tried to use the teaching methods of ‘Kinesthetic intelligence theory’ of Gardner to evaluate the effectiveness of these methods on the science lesson and compare it with traditional methods. Research method Quasi-experimentalism, Nonequivalent control-group. ...
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In this research it has been tried to use the teaching methods of ‘Kinesthetic intelligence theory’ of Gardner to evaluate the effectiveness of these methods on the science lesson and compare it with traditional methods. Research method Quasi-experimentalism, Nonequivalent control-group. Statistical community includes by 1st class boy students of Ghods city in the educating year 2011-2012. Then by using test method, the preferences of multiple intelligences of both group (control & experiment) determined. One week before beginning of experiment a pretest was taken from both groups, and then experiment group passed eight week training trail, when the controlling group was training with traditional method. Then by taking a post test, the learning level of these students was evaluated and was compared by the marks of witness group. The statistical data was analyzed by covariance test. The results showed that there is a significant relation between learning based on Kinesthetic intelligence and science lesson, and also there is a significant difference between 2 groups of students that learned from Kinesthetic intelligence and students that were not thought by this method (significant level of test that the measure was 0.00 and less than 0.05) and the experiment group had more efficient result compared with control group because of methods based on Gardner’s ‘Kinesthetic intelligence’ method. Therefore this researcher suggests using this teaching method at schools for students.
