Students’ Perceptions towards the Usage of Online Multiple Intelligences Teaching Tools in Learning Programming

摘要

Background: The theories of Multiple Intelligence (MI) used in this paper apply tostudents with interpersonal, visual-spatial and verbal-linguistic intelligences. In thiscontext, students will learn better if they know and use their intelligence. Lecturers playan important role in planning the teaching and learning activities in order to meet theneeds of intelligence, which consist of the nine intelligences that introduced byGardner. Objective: The objective of this paper is to analyze the perceptions andattitudes towards the usage of Online Multiple Intelligence Teaching Tools (On-MITT)in learning programming. Results: A total of 36 students from Politeknik MerlimauMelaka (PMM) responded to the survey. Learning Questionnaire is used as theinstrument to measure the ease of use and usefulness towards the usage of On-MITT inlearning programming. Based on the findings, the On-MITT can enhance learning inprogramming subject. Conclusion: It can be concluded that On-MITT can motivatestudents to use online learning in class. Adding others type of intelligence in On-MITTshould be developed in order to achieve an effective teaching and learning process.