Aim and Background: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the factorial structure and reliability of Persian version of the Multiple Intelligences Inventory.  Methods and Materials: First, this Inventory translated to Farsi. Then, it was retranslated to English and compared with the original version to find and correct the gaps between the translated version and the original version. Finally, after the pilot study and resolving the mistakes, the final Inventory was carried out for sample group consisting of 413 students studying in Humanities Sciences in Tabriz Payame Noor University (283 female, 130 male). In this study, Exploratory Factor Analysis was conducted on the items of scales, using a Principal Component Analysis, with Varimax Rotation. Results:  Resulte of factor analysis showed diffrent dimention for each subscales. For these factors assigned a name according to the content of the items. In this research item- total correlations and item discrimination power calculated. The reliability of the Inventory was obtained by internal consistency (cronbach alpha) and test- retest methods. Cronbach's Alpha coefficient for subscales was in the range between 0.74 untile 0.96; and correlation coefficient after four weeks retest was in the range between 0.68 untill 0.89, respectively. Cronbach's Alpha and test- retest coefficient showed that reliability of subscales is acceptable. Conclusions: According to the Results of this study can be councluded that Multiple Intelligences Inventory has appropriate psychometric properties for detemine individual intelligence profiles.    

Keywords: Multiple Intelligences, factorial structure, reliability, Inventory, student

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