Development and Validation of Multiple Intelligence Test for University Students

The purpose of this study was to develop a self-administered multiple intelligences test for university students and then confirm the reliability and validity of the developed test. To that end, this study conducted a literature review and examined content validity with experts to develop definitions and preliminary questions for intelligence subfactors under each of the domains. Through an online survey, the preliminary test was administered to 128 university students in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province, who were selected from convenience sampling. To test the normality of individual questions, this study examined kurtosis and skewness before analyzing the questions and confirmed that all of the questions met the standard of normality. This test was self-administered by 513 university students in Seoul, Gyeonggi Province, six metropolitan cities, and Sejong City, and confirmatory factor analysis was used to confirm construct validity. The reliability of this tool was found to be good with a range of .758 to .885. The criterion-related validity of the test was verified using an adult multiple intelligences test administered to 61 participating university students. A high correlation was found across all of the seven intelligence domains, except for spatial intelligence, which confirmed the validity of the test as a multiple intelligences assessment tool.