Students' Dominant Intelligence and Performance in Chemistry

The study aimed to describe the influence of multiple intelligences to the chemistry performance of the Grade 7 students. The research participants were composed of 59 intact population of grade 7 in Manlabong National High School. They were group based on the dominant intelligence. The study was conducted for one quarter and employed the descriptive research method. Questionnaires were used as the data gathering tool. Based on the sub-problems the following findings were found out: (1) the participants were mostly naturalistic intelligent individuals; (2) using one-way ANOVA, it was determined that there were no significant differences in the performance of the groups in the laboratory exam and other MI-seatwork activities. However, there were significant differences in the performance of the groups in achievement test and linguistic intelligence inclined seatwork activities, but Scheffe post hoc test disproved this by giving no significant differences in the performances in any pairwise comparisons; and (3) though most of the participants were naturalistic, they mostly appreciated chemistry activities related to visual-spatial intelligence. It was concluded that the research participants have dominant naturalistic intelligence but visual-spatial related chemistry activities are the common preferred activities they like to do. The researcher recommends the following: MI profiling be conducted in the class using the standard MI assessment, conducting a study on the relationship of most tapped DI and chemistry performance, and giving more MI-inclined activities suitable to the identified MI profile of the class.