مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - AN INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PHYSICAL APTITUDE TEST TRACK TIME, MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES AND GENDER OF VOCATIONAL POLICE HIGH SCHOOL PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS

Abstract :

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the physical aptitude test track time, multiple intelligences and gender of Vocational Police High School prospective students. 1004 prospective students-868 male and 136 female- entering the physical aptitude test to be able to become a student in Vocational Police High School between the dates 20 May-10 June 2012 participated in the study voluntarily. The data were collected through physical aptitude track times, an information form and a “Multiple Intelligences Questionnaire”. The information form included of a total of 12 questions about the students, their families, and their sports habits. The Multiple Intelligences Questionnaire was Likert type and included 10 parts and a total of 80 items. One-way ANOVA and independent sample t-test were used for statistical analyses. Verbal, logical, visual, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, intrapersonal and naturalistic intelligence scores of the female participants were significantly higher than those of male students’ (p 0.05). However, there was no significant difference between genders in terms of in terms of interpersonal intelligence (p 0.05). While a significance was found between interpersonal, visual and musical intelligence scores in terms of time variable (p 0.05), there was no significant difference in any of the multiple intelligence scores when time variable was considered for female and male prospective students separately (p 0.05). As a conclusion, it can be said that although gender variable has an effect ın the multiple intelligence scores, time variable did not have any effect on the multiple intelligence scores of prospective students.