Dear LM_NET friends,
Several individuals wrote to me in October expressing interest in a graduate school
project that I was conducting on Multiple Intelligences and reading preferences. As
promised, I am submitting this information for all that are interested in this
topic.
The research investigated the relationship between the eight areas of multiple
intelligence (MI) and reading preferences. A survey of 81 fifth grade students
obtained the following results*:
1. Students with linguistic strength prefer fiction to nonfiction and visit the
library frequently. They also prefer action or adventure novels.
2. The top nonfiction choices for logical-mathematical respondents were
recreational sports, dance, and indoor games.
3. Naturalists were more likely to frequently select books on nature, and science.
They preferred realistic fiction to fantasy.
4. Respondents with a high spatial score (This group was had more males than
females) preferred certain nonfiction books more than other MI groups: art and
drawing jokes and riddles, monsters, aliens, UFOs, and puzzle books. They preferred
humorous or funny stories, scary or horror stories, and survival stories.
5. Musical respondents frequently selected nonfiction mathematics books and pet
books. Fiction choices included fantasy, and novels about animals and pets.
6. Students with strengths in the following areas: bodily-kinesthetic,
interpersonal and intrapersonal selected books at a rate identical to the average
rate. (see 7,8, and 9 below)
7. Favorite nonfiction choices of all students listed in order of importance: pets,
sports teams or techniques, recreational sports, fairy tales or folk tales, and
jokes and riddles.
8. Favorite fiction choices: action/adventure, humorous, scary or horror, fantasy,
animal or pet stories.
9. Favorite magazines: Nickelodeon, Sports Illustrated for Kids, Zoobooks, BMX,
Wild Outdoor World.
8. One of the most interesting findings was the discovery of linkage between the
multiple intelligences. In other words, certain strengths in one area seemed
associated with strengths in another.
Overall, there are identifiable reading preferences associated with some of the
multiple intelligences. There is a relationship between multiple intelligences and
reading preferences, but it is not a strong, predicable relationship. Gender
appears to be a more significant predictor of reading preferences.
This is only a brief synopsis of the results*. If you are interested in the
complete report, which includes a literature review, graphs and charts of the
results, the summary, conclusion and analysis, and an extensive bibliography,
please contact me and I will send it to you.
Marjorie Pettersen
Library Media Specialist
East School
215 Hogan Drive
Torrington, CT 06790
860-489-2303, ext. 235
controller53@excite.com
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