ABSTRACT
This study aimed to identify the learning styles, multiple intelligences, and academic performance in mathematics of grade 7 students of Jose Lopez Manzano National High School.
The one hundred seventy (170) respondents of the study were the grade 7 students of Jose Lopez Manzano National High School. Data were gathered through a questionnaire with three (3) Parts. Part I was the respondents’ grades in mathematics during their first grading period. Part II was the checklists based on Carl Jung’s four (4) Learning Styles and Part III was Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences (MI) model checklists. Mean, standard deviation, frequency, percentage, and spearman rho (rs) were used to interpret the data gathered. As presented, the best learning style of students was the sensing feeling learning style (SFLS). The multiple intelligence (MI) strengths of the students were intrapersonal intelligence and naturalist intelligence. It also revealed the majority of the respondents got an average of 85 – 89 (very satisfactory) grades in the first grading period. Students’ mathematics performance showed a significant relationship with learning styles in sensing thinking learning style (STLS), but did not show a significant relationship with intuitive thinking learning style (ITLS), intuitive feeling learning style (IFLS), and sensing feeling learning style (SFLS). Students’ mathematics performance showed a significant relationship with multiple intelligences (MI) in bodily-kinesthetic and naturalist intelligences but did not show a significant relationship with verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial-visual, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and existentialist intelligences. Students’ learning styles showed a significant relationship with their multiple intelligences (MI).
Keywords: learning styles, multiple intelligences, academic performance, mathematics