CULTURAL ADAPTATION AND STANDARDIZATION OF A MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES INVENTORY

:-The present study is an attempt to develop and standardize a multiple intelligences inventory<br>with an aim to its cultural adaptation. The original inventory, found on line, was in American English<br>language and hence not suitable to apply on Indian Bengalee population. Therefore, the test was<br>culturally adapted with the intention to assess the nature of eight multiple intelligences of school<br>children, particularly adolescents, who study higher secondary level curriculum under West Bengal<br>Council of Higher Secondary Education. The inventory consists of 80 items in total, divided into eight<br>sub-scales, each containing ten items. After try-out (N=20) and pilot study (N=50), the final study was<br>conducted with a sample of 100 higher secondary level students from exclusively Bengali medium<br>schools. Besides split-half reliability of the test, construct validity and internal consistency of the test<br>items were determined following conventional procedure.