Recent Studies on Multiple Intelligence in the Philippine Educational Setting: A Meta-Analysis

Abstract

Students do not learn and acquire information in one way alone. There are various means in which students can gain information and learn different things in school. These are the theoretical bases where the Theory on Multiple Intelligence by Howard Gardner are anchored with. To better understand the evolution and significance of multiple intelligence in the Philippine educational setting, this study would like to present the synthesis of the articles on multiple intelligence in the educational institutions published from 2012 to 2022 by Filipino authors and to evaluate their contents in terms of respondents considered, study setting, statistical tests used by the studies, and common themes of the significant findings of the various articles. Using google scholar as a search engine, researcher sought for the published articles on multiple intelligence available online published in the mentioned years. The data gathered were analyzed using the descriptive statistical tests. Major findings of the articles were analyzed using the thematic analysis. Findings of the study depicted that most of the articles on multiple intelligence studies in the Philippine educational institutions were published in year 2020 while the least number of articles was produced in year 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2017. Majority of the studies used both college students as the respondents of the investigation. The island of Luzon was able to produce the greatest number of the studies within 10 years. In terms of statistical tests used, majority of the studies utilized both descriptive and inferential tests. The common themes generated in the study are major domains of multiple intelligence, impact of multiple intelligence in the academic achievement of the students, and relationships between students’ demographic profile and multiple intelligence. It is recommended that studies on multiple intelligence in the Philippine educational setting older than 2011 should be properly documented and educational researchers in Visayas and Mindanao should work on multiple intelligence studies to augment to the dearth of the published studies on this aspect in the field of education.

Keywords: Multiple intelligence, Philippine education, respondents, study setting, statistical analysis, meta-analysis

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/15-5-04

Publication date: April 30^th 2024