An analysis of academic achievement and kinesthetic intelligence of school children

Abstract

Current educational approaches generally focus on logical-mathematical and linguistic skills. Intellectual capacity like kinesthetic intelligence of this study was an examination of the relationship between academic achievement and skills. While there is increasing concern regarding the efficiency of our educational system, more focus on academics which address individual differences in intelligence. Instruction and assessment in the classroom focus on logical-mathematical and linguistic abilities. The purpose of the study quotAn analysis of academic achievement and kinesthetic intelligence of school children was aimed to find the role of relationship between academic achievement, intelligence quotient and kinesthetic intelligence among school students. Keeping in view the objectives of study a random sample of 1500(750 boys and 750 girls) school students in age group between 10 to 13 years from SAS Nagar, Panchkula and Chandigarh were enrolled. The data pertaining to academic achievement, intelligence quotient and kinesthetic intelligence among school students was subjected to statistical analysis: both descriptive and inferential. Mean difference between genders for all selected parameters was assessed in terms of independent sample t-test. To compare the difference between cities test of variance Analysis of variance, ANOVAs (one way) was applied with post-hoc multiple comparisons. To establish relationship between study parameters; academic achievement, intelligence quotient and bodily-kinesthetic intelligence Pearson s co-relation co-efficient was used. Statistics level of significance was taken as 0.05 for testing pre-designed hypothesis. The significant relationship shows between intelligent quotient, academic achievement and kinesthetic intelligence. newline