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Multiple Intelligence Assessment Ideas
A good assessment instrument can be a learning experience. But more to the point, it is extremely
desirable to have assessment occur in the context of students working on problems, projects, or
products that genuinely engage them, that hold their interest and motivate them to do well. Such
exercises may not be as easy to design as the standard multiple-choice entry, but they are far
more likely to elicit a student's full repertoire of skills and to yield information that is useful for
subsequent advice and placemen
Howard Gardner
Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice
Verbal-Linguistic Intelligence
- written essays
- poetry writing
- learning logs and journals
- identify quote from reading and explain why you chose it
(all these can be posted online)
Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
- outlining
- deductive reasoning
- inductive reasoning
(this can be done in a discussion area)
Visual-Spatial Intelligence
- murals and montages (have students scan or use a digital camera to post a picture of their work online)
- create a graphic organizer or concept map based on learning/reading (use Inspiration and post a gif online)
- draw a picture (and post online as a .gif) that represents your understanding of this week's learning and explain in a paragraph
- post a picture/gif of one artifact that represents your intepretation of this week's themes with a paragraph explanation
- create a visual representation of what you've learned
Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence
- dramatization (describe or write a play)
- charades and mimes (take pictures or describe)
- human sculptures (take a picture of it and post online with a description - do with your friends)
Musical-Rhythmic Intelligence
- creating concepts songs and raps
- creating percussion patterns
- illustrating with sound
(be sure students create because of copyright issues. Use the audio recorder on your computer and post file online)
Interpersonal Intelligence
- group "jigsaws"
- "think-pair-share"
- assess your teammates
- create a group collage related to the learning/reading
(these can all be done in a discussion area)
Intrapersonal Intelligence
- personal application scenarios
- feelings diaries and logs
- personal goals
- write a personal journal and reflect on readings from a specific point of view
(these can all be posted online)
Naturalist Intelligence
- make a collage with items from nature
- categorize words, key ideas, people
- make connections with natural world
(can be posted online or students can post a picture)
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Emotional intelligence is built on the assumption that we have two kinds of minds: an emotional mind and a rational mind – one that thinks and one that feels. These two minds, the emotional and the rational, operate in tight harmony for the most part, intertwining their very different ways of knowing to guide us through the world. . . . In many or most moments these minds are exquisitely coordinated; feelings are essential to thought, thought to feeling. pp. 8, 9
Emotional intelligence includes: abilities such as being able to motivate oneself and persist in the face of frustrations; to control impulse and delay gratification; to regulate one's moods and keep distress from swamping the ability to think; to empathize and to hope. p. 34.
Eric Jensen. Teaching with the Brain in Mind.
Gregorc Style Delineator-
http://www.thelearningweb.net/tlrcfm/personalthink.cfm?N2735591812680="We all have preferred learning, working and thinking styles," says Anthony Gregorc, professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Connecticut.
- Concrete Sequential Thinkers tend to be based in reality. They process information in an ordered, sequential, linear way.
- Concrete Random Thinkers are experimenters.
- Abstract Random Thinkers organize information through reflection, and thrive in unstructured, people-oriented environments.
- Abstract Sequential Thinkers love the world of theory and abstract thought.
No thinking style is superior. They are only different.