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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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Standards for Course Development: Thinking Processes
How to Make Your Course Focus on Thinking Processes
- Quotes to Make You Think
- A person's thoughts are like water in a deep well. But someone with insight can draw
them out. Proverbs 20:5, TEV- It is the work of true education to develop this power, to train the youth to be thinkers,
and not mere reflectors of other men's thoughts. E. White, Education, 17- The education that consists in the training of the memory, tending to discourage
independent thought, has a moral bearing which is too little appreciated. As the student
sacrifices the power to reason and judge for himself, he becomes incapable of
discriminating between truth and error, and falls an easy prey to deception. He is easily
led to follow tradition and custom. E. White, Education, 230- For ages education has had to do chiefly with the memory. This faculty has been taxed
to the utmost, while the other mental powers have not been correspondingly developed.
Students have spent their time in laboriously crowding the mind with knowledge, very
little of which could be utilized.
E. White, Education, 230- Design questions that stimulate higher levels of interaction and thinking.
- The Web: Design for Active Learning "This handbook will present the idea of interactivity as
it applies to a cohesive design including high interface, content, and instructional design."
Includes a section on "Learning Activities that Inspire Critical Thinking."- Technology as Cognitive Tools: Learners as Designers "This short paper is about the
application of technologies, primarily computers, as cognitive learning tools rather than as
instructional media. I will argue that technologies ... afford the most meaningful thinking when
used as tools."- Learning in Hyperspace "The acquisition of wisdom from knowledge requires practice in the
judicious application of that knowledge in the personal and social context in which the student
acts."- Active & Cooperative Learning in the College A listing and description of very specific
activities that could be adapted for online learning.- Web-Enhanced Learning Environment Strategies for Classroom Teachers "This paper
presents a model for conceptualizing the components of the WWW and merges resources
with six sound pedagogical classroom practices. Six Web-enhanced learning environment
strategies result from this merger."- Data in the Classroom "The types and order of questions teachers ask when dealing with
these organized bodies of knowledge are critical to the success of the lesson. Questions are
a powerful tool in teaching and carefully planned and worded questions can determine the
effectiveness of instruction."