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.
Transfer students have higher mean scores in Linguistics than the remedial cohort.
The data collection in the fall 2000 term will enable a more robust analysis of disaggregated data according to the moderator variables of age, gender, and ethnicity. However, there is a preliminary finding that invites speculation because of its tantalizing possibility. In Dr. Ksicinski s original work, the highest paired correlation of the eight intelligences lay between the Intrapersonal and the Logical-Mathematical scales. Statistician and CR Mathematics instructor, Mr. Sinclair, found that this correlation remains strong in the expanded study involving the two groups. Anecdotal material also suggests that self-confidence and success in mathematics coincide.