ABSTRACT
    The study was conducted to determine the increase of concept mastery, students' intelligence profiles and students' activity profiles through the application of multiple intelligences based learning in class VIII on subject material of IPBA in one of junior high school in Bandung. Pre-experimental design used was a one group pretest-posttest. While data collection tool used in the study were twenty five muliple choice questions, observation sheet of the accomplished learning and student activity sheets. The data proceeded in the cognitive learning area used normalized gain of the pretest and posttest score. The results showed a normalized gain of 0.35 in moderate category. The percentage of the average student intelligence for dominant intelligences naturalist with 55.26% and low in linguistic intelligence with 34.55%. The percentage of the average student activities for each meeting was 68.53% and 73.28% with the high category. Therefore, it can be concluded that the multiple intelligence based learning can increase of concept mastery.
Keywords: Multiple intelligences based learning, student intelligence profiles, student activities, and mastery of concepts.
1. Introduction
     Indonesia has a unique geographical position so that the people of Indonesia were very necessary to understand the Earth and Space Sciences (IPBA) well in order to be able to explore and exploit the potential of natural resources that were available with their own efforts wisely. process learning IPBA according to junior high science curriculum should be more emphasis on students' understanding of various natural phenomena, concepts, and principles of science so that students can apply them in everyday life, and make them aware to appreciate nature as well as maintain and preserve it.
     However, when given multiple choice questions on the topic of the solar system average student who answered correctly 8.75 to score a maximum of 20. This suggests that students' mastery of concepts IPBA class is still low. This was presumably related to the learning process that occurs that teachers only focus on linguistic intelligence and logic alone.
Intelligence not only includes two parameters, but also to be seen from the aspect of kinesthetic, musical, visual-spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist (Kuadrat et al., 2010: 11). The types of intelligence are known as multiple intelligences (multiple intelligence) that was introduced by Howard Gardner in 1983.
     One that facilitates the learning of all children's intelligence is a multiple intelligences based learning which was the learning that takes into account individual intelligence of each student. Please note every child has the intelligence and abilities in understanding a subject. An educator should not be forcing students to understand each material with the same understanding and perfect with a single dose of intelligence, because the situation of children in a different class.
     Based on this research was then conducted with the aim to obtain information about the increase in students' mastery of concepts IPBA after multiple intelligences based learning applied.
2. Methods
The research methods used were experimental studies with a one group pretest-posttest design with the treatment of learning as much as two times.
