EFFECTS OF AN INSTRUCTION BASED ON DOMINANT INTELLIGENCE ON OVERCOMING MISCONCEPTIONS

This research is featured by the determination of misconceptions about studentsʹ opinions prior to teaching, relating them to the areas of multiple intelligences and analysis of the effect of the teaching, designed taking this relationship into the account, on eliminating the misconceptions. In this research the quasi-experimental design was used. The sample group of this research involves two different 6th grade students in one of schools in central Balikesir. 33 of the students represent the experimental group while control group includes 30 students. In this qualitative research, an interview planned in accordance with "interview form approach" to establish the differences and parallels between the studentsʹ answers, analysis tableaus to analyze the given answers, a multiple intelligence inventory and a multiple intelligence observation form, helping to determine the kinds of multiple intelligences of students have been used. Findings show that there is a relationship between the misconceptions affecting the instruction in a negative way and the kind of dominant intelligence. It has been tried to define learning/ teaching environment enriched with the help of activities done by taking this relationship into consideration and an instruction including original aspects has been planned. As a result of this instruction, it has been seen that the misconceptions in the studentsʹ prior knowledge, have been eliminated.