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I suggest that we initially focus our attention in MI assessment on looking at individual students’ work in depth in terms of the unfolding of each student’s uniqueness

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Another important component in implementing authentic assessment is the documentation of student products and problem-solving processes:

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Another important component in implementing authentic assessment is the documentation of student products and problem-solving processes:

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- Anecdotal records
- Work sample
- Audio files
- Video
- Fotography
- Student journals
- Student-kept charts
- Sociograms
- Informal assessments
- Informal use of standardized tests
- Student interviews
- Criterion-referenced assessments
- Checklists
- Classroom maps
- Calendar records

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The most important prerequisite to authentic assessment is observation. Observing students solving problems or fashioning products
in real-life contexts provides the best picture of student competencies
in the range of subjects taught in school.

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authentic measures allow students to show what they’ve learned in context

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MI theory proposes a fundamental restructuring of the way in which educators assess their students’ learning progress. It suggests a system that relies on authentic measures that are criterion-referenced, benchmarked, or ipsative (i.e., that compare a student to his or her own past performances).

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It would certainly be the height of hypocrisy to ask students to participate in a wide range of multispectrum experiences in all eight intelligences and then require them to show what they’ve learned through standardized tests that focus narrowly on linguistic or logical-mathematical intelligences. Educators would clearly be sending a double message to students and to the wider community: “Learning in eight ways is fun, but when it comes to our bottom line—evaluating students’ learning progress—we’ve got to get serious again and test the way we’ve always tested.”

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I believe that we should get away altogether from tests and correlations among tests, and look instead at more naturalistic sources of information about how peoples around the world develop skills important to their way of life.