The Rubrics Way: Using Multiple Intelligences to Assess Understanding

Encouraging teachers to step beyond the boundaries of the traditional linguistic-mathematical paradigm of assessment, this resource shows how using MI-based rubrics is the key to building authentic and intelligence-fair assessments. Provided here are 80 MI-based rubrics guidelines that can be applied and adapted to students’ performances using the various intelligences. There are more than 240 questions to ask when evaluating students’ MI-based performances and their understanding of the required material. In addition, the guide offers real classroom examples of MI-based assessment and rubrics that have been used by teachers.

Encouraging teachers to step beyond the boundaries of the traditional linguistic-mathematical paradigm of assessment, this resource shows how using MI-based rubrics is the key to building authentic and intelligence-fair assessments. Provided here are 80 MI-based rubrics guidelines that can be applied and adapted to students’ performances using the various intelligences. There are more than 240 questions to ask when evaluating students’ MI-based performances and their understanding of the required material. In addition, the guide offers real classroom examples of MI-based assessment and rubrics that have been used by teachers.

David Lazear is the founder of New Dimensions of Learning, an organization that helps train educators and businesspeople to apply cutting-edge research on multiple intelligences and other brain-based approaches to instruction and business. He is the author of Eight Ways of Teaching, Intelligence Builders for Every Student, and The Intelligent Curriculum. He lives in Chicago.