Multiple Intellgence and Authentic Assessment

This past week or so, I've been thinking about Multiple Intelligence (MI) and it occurred to me that so many of the actives dealing with MI fall under the authentic assessment.

Authentic assessment refers to assessment tasks that resemble reading and writing in the real world and in school (Hiebert, Valencia & Afflerbach, 1994; Wiggins, 1993). Its goal is to make a connection to actual situations to apply their knowledge.  Also, when students are given an authentic assessment, they are more engaged as they deal with a real world problem.  Examples of these activities might be creating a book, a journal, or even a campaign poster.

AN EXAMPLE:
One example of this included video productions.  Video production belongs to the Body Kinesthetic intelligence of the Multiple Intelligence.

This week, my students completed a video demonstrating their knowledge about women's' suffrage.  For this authentic assessment, the students are creating a video for Steven Spielberg.  Here are two examples of the students' work.  I hope it is clear they learned something, at the same time, had some fun too. :)

ASSESSMENT: 
How do I grade this assignment?  I created this handy grading rubric.  If interesting in learning more about this rubric, you can review it at the Social Studies Super Store.