The Contribution of Multiple Intelligences Aspects on Science Process Skills of High School Students in Ecology Topic

Abstract

This research was conducted to determine the contribution of multiple intelligences aspects on science process skills of Senior High School student's in ecology. This research is a descriptive research. The population in this study were the first grade students of Senior High School in Medan in academic year 2017/2018 which consist of 4.228 students in rotal. The sample in this study was taken using the Slovin technique, so that consisting of 365 students. To determine of the samples in each school was taken using the Proportionate Stratified Random Sampling technique and to determine who is be the sample for each school was taken using the Simple Random Sampling technique. The research instrument used the multiple intelligences questionnaire, and tests of science process skills in ecology. The contributions of the multiple intelligences aspects on science process skills of high school student's in Medan were obtained by using the stepwise multiple regression analysis. The results showed that the aspects of the multiple intelligences that most contributed on the science process skills of Senior High School student's in Medan were interpersonal intelligence, verbal linguistic verbal intelligence, kinesthetic intelligence, and logical mathematical intelligence with the contributions were 80,4%.