MI - Chapter 10 - MI and Assessment

Although we’ve been over the different types of assessment, and their pros and cons, I think this chapter showed many useful examples of how to use proper assessment. There are still a few I don’t quite agree with though. While I understand the reasoning behind videotaping students while they’re presenting projects, reports etc., I don’t believe it’s necessary to put the child through the potential anxiety of knowing that twice a year they will be videotaped, and that videotape will be placed in their permanent file. I have seen first hand how using assessments that appeal to the multiple intelligences really do work. My mentor teacher regularly includes questions that relate his students’ lives and they also do quite a bit of sketching.