Thinking Smarter not Harder Research Study

Part I: Thinking Smarter not Harder: Overview

Clifford Morris
Research Investigator
cmorris@igs.net
http://www.igs.net/~cmorris

Attention

The following Multiple Intelligences (MI) survey study represents a longitudinal investigation into how Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences affects us throughout our daily lives. It is currently being field test by the above investigator. This Part I page and its accompanying two pages are under construction. Conclusions resulting from using any of the contents from these pages must be viewed with extreme caution and serious suspect. That is, any findings generated from using them can not, at this time, be treated as valid and reliable. Once I have completed the final web programming for the actual survey (see Part III), the survey shall be up and running there.

If after reading these three (3) pages, you feel that you might be interested in being a survey respondent, please keep checking this page for further development.

Clifford Morris
Friday, September 20, 2002

Overview

This research study is being developed around Howard Gardner's Theory (MIT) of Multiple Intelligences (MI). The MIT study will be a longitudinal investigation into the development of a self-reflective MI assessment tool. The study is currently being field-tested by the above investigator and thus seeks committed individuals as research subjects. If after reading the rest of this page, you feel that you would like to be considered as a possible candidate, please feel free to complete the "Personal Information" form at the bottom of this page and to click on the "Submit" button.

The MI Survey (see Part III) will consists of two sections. In Section I, respondents will be asked to allocate to each series of items a number score that best represents how they think they currently feel about themselves. Their greater scores will only suggest possible dominances in those areas. Their responses will be stored in a research data base and added to their scores from the second section. In Section II, users will be continuously presented with a series of scenario pairs, also developed around Gardner's MI model. Each pair will involve a forced-choice self-scoring arrangement. Users will be asked to compare themselves or/and others to two scenarios. They will be asked to decide which scenario better represents them by allocating points between them. And, as above, their responses will be stored in a research data base and added to their scores from the first section. When the subjects feel that their responses best represent their current intelligence behaviors, they will be asked to click on a "Submit" button located at the bottom of the form (see Part III). When they do this, and as a partial thanks for being a research subject, their datum will be immediately bounced back to them in the form of a vertical bar graph.

All stored data will remain anonymous and will only be used as part of the investigator's longitudinal MI study. In other words, none of the gathered research information will be used for any commercial purposes and will always be kept strictly confidential. Qualitative (NUDIST) and quantitative (Excel and SPSS) data analysis software will be used to interpret the accumulated data. If any comments will ever be quoted in research papers, the investigator will first seek written permission. When the study results are finally analyzed, a copy of the conclusions will be posted here.

Selecting Research Subjects

As web access to research surveys can become a reliability and validity issue, the Thinking Smarter not Harder Survey Form is freely available only to selected participants. That is, this is a research precaution required to limit access to authorized users. To be selected as a possible research participant, please complete the following two items and then click on the "Submit" button. Your two responses will be send to the research investigator for review. If you are selected to be a subject, you will receive an email containing your own persona username, a password and a unique user identification number. These three bits of personal information will allow you to access and to complete the form. Thanks for your interest, thus far.

My email address is: (example: jsmith@igs.net)

Here is why I would like to be a research subject for your longitudinal investigation

Please your research request, or the form now.

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