Being
Daniel Jones
Part V
Applying
the theory of multiple intelligences to Daniel Jones requires examining his
choice of activities, artifacts of his performance and abilities, and analyzing
his personal development under the different lenses of each area of
intelligence. I am presenting evidence
in the forms of both qualitative and quantitative data to support my
conclusions about his giftedness in these various areas.
Dan and me, the day he went into the Missionary Training Center
Areas of Intelligence
Linguistic
Daniel has consistently
scored very highly in language arts areas.
Below are some of his test scores:
|
Test Name
|
Test Date
|
Score
|
Notes
|
|
Language
Arts CRT
|
2007
(6th grade)
|
185
|
This
score represents highly proficient
|
|
IOWA
Reading Portion
|
2007
(6th grade)
|
99%ile
|
|
|
IOWA
Language Arts Portion
|
2007
(6th grade)
|
78%ile
|
|
|
Language
Arts CRT
|
2008
(7th grade)
|
185
|
This
score represents highly proficient
|
|
Language
Arts CRT
|
2009
(8th grade)
|
199
|
This
score represents highly proficient
|
|
IOWA
Reading Portion
|
2009
(8th grade)
|
96%ile
|
|
|
IOWA
Language Arts Portion
|
2009
(8th grade)
|
97%ile
|
|
|
IOWA
Social Studies Portion
|
2009
(8th grade)
|
92%ile
|
|
|
Language
Arts CRT
|
2010
(9th grade)
|
181
|
This
score represents highly proficient
|
|
Language
Arts CRT
|
2011
(10th grade)
|
181
|
This
score represents highly proficient
|
|
AP
European History
|
2011
(10th grade)
|
5
|
On
a scale of 1-5 with 3 being passing
|
|
AP
English Literature
|
2013
(12th grade)
|
4
|
On
a scale of 1-5, with 3 being passing
|
|
ACT
English Portion
|
2013
(12th grade)
|
30
|
This
was Daniel’s second of 3 ACT attempts
|
|
ACT
Reading Portion
|
2013
(12th grade)
|
34
|
This
was Daniel’s second of 3 ACT attempts
|
Logical/mathematic
Daniel has also scored
very highly in math tests. Below are
some of his math scores:
|
Test Name
|
Test Date
|
Score
|
Notes
|
|
Math
CRT
|
2007
(6th grade)
|
195
|
This
score represents highly proficient
|
|
IOWA
Math Portion
|
2007
(6th grade)
|
99%ile
|
|
|
Math
CRT
|
2008
(7th grade)
|
195
|
This
score represents highly proficient
|
|
Math
CRT
|
2009
(8th grade)
|
180
|
This
score represents highly proficient
|
|
IOWA
Math Portion
|
2009
(8th grade)
|
99%ile
|
On
a scale of 1-5 with 3 being passing
|
|
AP
Calculus AB
|
2012
(11th grade)
|
5
|
On
a scale of 1-5 with 3 being passing
|
|
AP
Calculus BC
|
2012
(11th grade)
|
5
|
On
a scale of 1-5 with 3 being passing
|
|
AP
Statistics
|
2013
(12th grade)
|
5
|
On
a scale of 1-5 with 3 being passing
|
|
ACT
Math Portion
|
2013
(12th grade)
|
35
|
This
was Daniel’s second of 3 ACT attempts
|
Daniel and
one of his math/science buddies at graduation
Overlap of Linguistic and Logical
With talents in both
areas, Daniel is able to excel in science, involving both strong language
ability and excellent reasoning skills.
Below are some of his science test scores:
|
Test Name
|
Test Date
|
Score
|
Notes
|
|
Science CRT
|
2007 (6th
grade)
|
172
|
This
score represents highly proficient
|
|
Science CRT
|
2008 (7th
grade)
|
192
|
This
score represents highly proficient
|
|
Science CRT
|
2009 (8th
grade)
|
199
|
This
score represents highly proficient
|
|
IOWA Science Portion
|
2009 (8th
grade)
|
99%ile
|
|
|
Science CRT, Biology
|
2010 (9th
grade)
|
183
|
This
score represents highly proficient
|
|
Science CRT, Chemistry
|
2011 (10th
Grade)
|
189
|
This
score represents highly proficient
|
|
AP
Physics
|
2012
(11th grade)
|
4
|
On
a scale of 1-5 with 3 being passing
|
|
ACT Science Portion
|
2012 (12th
grade)
|
30
|
This
was Daniel’s 1st of 3 attempts
|
Musical
Daniel
possesses musical giftedness. He has
participated in both choir and solo singing, competing in district and state
festivals. He received a superior rating
each year in solo singing at the high school level.
Daniel singing with his choir at graduation
Visual/Spatial
This is an area that has
not been specifically measured. I
predict Daniel is strong because he easily understands complex physics problems
that involve spatial concepts.
Bodily/Kinesthetic
This is not something
Daniel is naturally interested in. He
did not choose to play sports beyond a year or two in soccer and a year in flag
football. If he has natural intelligence,
it has not been developed.
| Playing soccer as a young boy |
Interpersonal
Daniel has always
exhibited sensitivity to others’ feelings but his natural shyness has inhibited
its expression. As an LDS missionary,
Daniel is developing this intelligence.
He was made a senior companion early and his mission president says that
the people in his area are “in good hands.”
Intrapersonal
Self-regulation is one of
Daniel’s strengths. In all his years of
school he was never tardy and never absent, except for an excused
activity. It is quite remarkable to have
a student who graduated high school with a 4.0 cumulative GPA and zero absences
or tardies. He always turned in his
assignments. His work was always legible
and correct.
Daniel probably has an
accurate sense of his strengths but may overestimate his weaknesses, measuring
them against the areas of natural talent.
Naturalistic
I don’t know if Daniel is
strong in this area of intelligence. He
is extremely attentive to detail, so I suspect he might be. But I do not know of any assessment in this
area.
Existential
Though this is another
area without quantitative data, I believe Daniel possesses this area of
intelligence. He has been able to see
the big picture from early childhood. An
example of this was when I began dating after my divorce from his dad. Daniel commented at age 7 that the man I was
dating was “buying my affection.” There
weren’t obvious large gifts, but he certainly was spoiling us with nice
dinners, etc. He is a serious young man
who is always looking at relationships between people and elements. His gifts in existential things will manifest
as he gets older.
Daniel
wants to be an astrophysicist when he returns from his church mission
