Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligence of Chepang Students of Nepal

Abstract

Learning processes of each individual differ because human beings are mentally, psychologically, physiologically different from each other. Learning as an internal process that is different for every individual and learning style can be described as the way individuals acquire new information. Similarly, intelligence is the ability to solve the problems. Learning style is significantly correlated with the intelligence of students. So, the study aims to identify the effect of learning styles on multiple intelligence of high school Chepang students of Nepal. The study had adopted the theoretical ideas of learning style of Fleming’s and Multiple Intelligence Theory of Howard Gardner to identify the status of learning style and multiple intelligence of Chepang students. The study was conducted in Makwanpur, Chitwan, Gorkha and Dhading district of Nepal among the 368 Chepang students of grade 9 and 10. The result found that there was very weak relationship between the learning styles and intelligence of students because the value of R square is .087 which means that learning styles can explain only 8.7% of the variation in the level of intelligence. The adjusted R² value is .079 which means that the learning styles contributed by 7.9% on level of intelligence of Chepang students. Students and teachers were not fully aware about the concept of learning styles as described by Fleming and types of multiple intelligence as Gardner. Students were also not aware on their own intelligence. There is need of specific course to aware the teacher and students about the learning styles and skill to evaluate their own intelligence.