A Comparative Study of the Multiple Intelligence Profiles of First-Year IT Students and Employed Graduates

Abstract

The aim of the article is to determine in the studied groups the multiple intelligence distribution defined in the 1980s by Howard Gardner. The research was conducted in three groups of respondents. The first study group was first-year students of computer science, the second was master (2nd degree) students, educationally 4 years older than the first group. Their intelligence distributions were compared with the intelligence distributions of the third group-graduates of the same university, the same field of study after several years of work in positions consistent with their education. Participants filled one of the multiple intelligence tests selected by answering 24 questions. A group of approximately 110 students and approximately 40 IT employees were examined. As there were statistically justified differences in several significant sub intelligences, a discussion was held on the forms of educational impact on student development paths. The research was carried out in conditions of full voluntary participation in the test and on the basis of self-assessment according to questions suggested in one of the online sources. According to the authors, the results seem interesting, although surprising.

A Method of Selecting Computer Science Students for the IT Market Based on their Predispositions Resulting from Multiple Intelligence

“…Taking these aspects into account, it can be concluded that the thesis put forward by the authors of this paper about the existence of a certain model of intelligence distribu-tion seems justified and indirectly confirmed by the results from many different environments of the world's countries. This thesis appeared earlier in the quoted here work of Wilinski A., Kupracz L. (2020).…”

“…We can judge it on the basis of statistical indications mentioned e.g. in the paper by Wilinski and Kupracz (2020). Polar diagrams presented in this paper have regular distributions with approximately equal saturation along each ray representing different sub intelligence (e.g.…”

“…The same test, with its results published in 2020, had already been used by Wilinski A., Kupracz L. (2020) in previous studies at Polish universities and has been discussed in detail later in this paper.…”