Multiple Intelligence Test for Children

By Nancy Faris**

Results will be returned to you shortly after you click on SCORE TEST.

If you wish to hand score, you may use the rubric.

Answer the following questions by checking on the sentences that are most like you.

1. I am good at copying what people say.

2. I really love books.

3. I really like to listen to the radio.

4. I really like to do "word searches" or crossword puzzles.

5. I really like language arts and social studies in school.

6. I really like to do experiments.

7. I really like math.

8. I really like science.

9. I am good at making and figuring out patterns.

10. I often wonder about how things work.

11. I really like music.

12. People tell me that I sing well.

13. I would be very sad if there was no music in the world.

14. I know a lot of songs by heart.

15. I sing songs I've heard on TV to myself as I'm going somewhere.

16. I am good at doing puzzles.

17. I am good at reading maps.

18. I hardly ever get lost or mixed up where I am going.

19. I can pretend I am in the sky looking down on my house and know where everything is.

20. I am good at drawing or making things with clay.

21. I am good at sports.

22. I really like to dance.

23. I like to be outside a lot.

24. I am good at learning new sports or dances.

25. I can figure out how something works or how to fix something that's broken by myself.

26. I feel sad when others are feeling sad.

27. I feel happy when I am with others that are feeling happy.

28. I like playing games with a group of people better than just one other person.

29. I have more than three good friends.

30. I really like being in the middle of a crowd.

31. I really like to spend time alone to think by myself.

32. I think a lot about the future and what I want to do when I grow up.

33. I know right away when I am feeling "stressed out" and I spend time alone to feel better.

34. I keep a diary or journal and write down my feelings.

35. Most of the time I'd rather stay home than go out somewhere with a lot of people.

**Based on Howard Gardner's Seven Intelligences/inspired by MI Test by Spencer Barnard -- MAT Program (ONU -- Kankakee, IL) siting this source: Dr. Howard Gardner, C. A. Armstrong, and the Boulder Center of Accelerated Learning. Also see Research and References.

Click on SCORE TEST to get your results or START OVER to clear check boxes.

When you get the totals, come back to this page and click on Multiple Intelligences to find out more about what your score means.

Click on these links to find some cool references for Multiple Intelligences :

Howard Gardner -- Biography
http://www.pz.harvard.edu/PIs/HG.htm

Math and Multiple Intelligences
http://www.newhorizons.org/restr_wahl1.html

Multiple Intelligences in High School
http://www.newhorizons.org/restr_weber.html

Teaching to the Multiple Intelligences
http://www.nauticom.net/www/cokids/teacher1.html

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