Arab Educational Information Network

The theory of multiple intelligences is one of the most important theories that can be employed and used in educational and educational situations. Several studies have proven that there is a relationship between multiple intelligences and many variables such as academic achievement, learning methods, achievement motivation, level of wisdom, professional tendencies, psychological happiness and self-esteem. This study aimed to reveal the discriminatory power of multiple intelligences among university students, and the difference between classification accuracy of the resulting discriminatory functions using two types of discriminatory analysis‏.Furthermore, multiple intelligences list was applied to (306) sample of female students from humanities and science colleges at King Saud University. The study found a low discriminatory power of multiple intelligences among the students; in addition to the distinguishing functions difference between the analysis types. In which, the resultant distinguishing function created “using stepwise analysis” was from only three types of intelligences (natural, logical, and social). Meanwhile, the resulting discriminant function “using direct analysis”, included all the nine multiple intelligences. Moreover, the results also revealed difference in the accuracy of the classification of the discriminatory functions. Finally, the study recommends conducting further progressive discriminatory analysis to detect the variables with the predictive ability to classify university students. (Published Abstract)