Dr. Ksicinski began this research for her successfully submitted dissertation, Assessment of a Remedial Community College Cohort for Multiple Intelligences towards completion of an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from the University of La Verne. The research continues via a California Funds for Instructional Improvement grant, expanding upon the initial study to a larger group, from 81 participants to the current level of 294. CR is a rural community college located beyond the Redwood Curtain in NW California. Approximately half of CR's students enter at an assessed remedial level versus transfer-ready. Although these descriptions are not mutually exclusive, we retain them for this study.
Many remedial students are re-entry to an academic atmosphere.
The younger, transfer students are typically recent graduates from local high schools. However, he supports alternative means of instruction. The researchers began by looking for statistically significant differences in the eight MI between the transfer and remedial cohort as well as between the instructors and students. Although the expanded study is still in process, preliminary data are surfacing some expected results. That is, males are rating themselves higher in Kinesthetic than females.