Abstract

The purpose of this research is to analyze the multiple intelligence levels of academies of physical education and sports students according to some demographic factors. To obtain data about multiple intelligence levels in the research, the multiple intelligence inventory, developed by Özden (2003), was applied to a total of 1.199 students, of which 541 are girls and 658 are boys. For resulting evaluation of the data, the frequency in SPPS program was applied, for independent groups the t-test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was applied and to find the origin group of the differences, Scheffe-F test was applied. According to the multiple intelligence levels results between the sexes in the study, significant differences were found in the subscales of visual (p=0.000) and rhythmic intelligence (p=0.000).As for the results of the multiple intelligence levels between sections, the averages of multiple intelligences at inter-departmental levels are not statistically significant (p<0.05) although there occurred averages in favor of the Department of Physical Education Training in the results obtained from lower dimensions.

Key words: Physical education, multiple intelligence, verbal-linguistic intelligence, logical-mathematical intelligence, visual-spatial intelligence, musical-rhythmic intelligence, bodily intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, naturalistic intelligence.