CULTURAL ADAPTATION AND STANDARDIZATION OF A MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES INVENTORY

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