Medical Student Case Study

As such, the present study is an attempt to answer the following research questions

RQ1. What is the MI profile of medical students studying at Guilan University of Medical Sciences?

RQ2. Is there any relationship between medical students’ MI profile and their reading comprehension skills?

Based on the above research questions, the following null hypothesis is proposed for the second research question:

H01. There is no significant relationship between medical students’ MI profile and their reading comprehension skills.

2. Review of literature

Because of the importance of the role of individual differences in the educational processes and probable effects that they may have on foreign or second language learning, many experts in the fields

The participants in the study were 215 high school students, who filled in Multiple Intelligences Developmental Assessment Scales (MIDAS) and took a test of reading comprehension. Thestudents were divided into three groups of high, mid, and low with regard to the participants’ performance on the reading test. There were striking differences among the intelligences of these groups. The outcomesindicated that the students with a high level of reading ability were ‘personal achievement oriented’, which suggests an intrapersonal aspect of intelligence, while those students with a moderate reading ability seemed to be more ‘socially focused’, signifying an interpersonal aspect.The participants at a low reading level were more ‘pragmatic, practical and action-oriented’representing mathematical intelligence.

In a further research, Mahdavyexamined the relationship between MI and listening performance of 117 Iranian EFL learners on the listening sections of IELTS and TOEFL. The findings of the study showed a significant correlation between the first language and listening proficiency of the participants, but no relationship was found between the other domains of MI and the participants’ listening