The Paige Mulhollan Dissertation Award Paper

Abstract

Using Gardner's ( 1983, 1993) Theory of Multiple Intelligences, the purpose of this study was to develop, through the exploration of empirical data, an understanding of freshman and senior intelligence at a metropolitan university, and determine if a statistically significant difference existed between freshman intelligence and senior intelligence with regard to the students' multiple intelligence domains, specific skills, and intellectual styles, and within each subject's respective gender, ethnicity, and age group.