Pictorial MI Survey
Directions:
Use a blue
crayon to mark your 1st choice.
Use a red
crayon to mark your 2nd choice.
At school, I like to study:
Letters and words
Music and dance
Numbers and math
With my friends
By trying things
Animals and plants
Space
Maps and graphs
All by myself
I am happy when I:
Listen to music
Share
Am alone
Learn about nature
Read or listen to stories
Draw or color
Move
Pray
Play games
At home I like to:
Play video games
Make music
Explore outside
Experiment
Do puzzles
Play alone
Talk on the phone
Dream about
possibilities
Read or look
at books
I am good at:
-at
cat
bat
sat
Making rhymes
Praying
Writing stories
Growing things
Figuring out how
things work
Making friends
Sports
Learning about people
and myself
Arts and
Crafts
I like to think about:
How plants grow
What I will be
when I grow up
Painting and creating
Spending time with
family and friends
How numbers
work
Building things
Characters Aliens and Space
from stories
Beautiful
music
Teacher Directions and Notes:
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This survey may be used individually, in small groups, or as a class.
If your student(s) do not read, read the prompt and then read each answer as
you point to the corresponding picture.
You may want to do just one page at a time.
Encourage children to come up with their own answers rather than picking what
seems popular with their peers. Make sure they know all answers are good and
can be “right”.
Remember, MI surveys are a snap shot of one moment in time, not an
assessment tool to pigeon hole children for life, or even the year!
Scoring:
You may score on this sheet by highlighting students blue answers in one color and their red answers in a
different color, or you may use the blank grid which follows.
Score two points for each blue (1st choice) circle and one point for each red (2nd choice) circle. Total each
column. Consider the top two to four Intelligences to be strengths for the student.
Natural
Musical
Intrapersonal
Interpersonal
Numbers
and math
Animals
and plants
Music and
dance
All by
myself
With my
friends
Play
games
Learn
about
nature
Listen to
music
Am alone
Share
Experiment
Explore
outside
Make
music
Play makebelieve
alone
Talk on the
phone
Figuring
out how
things
work
Writing
stories
Growing
things
Learning
about
people &
myself
Making
Rhymes
Making
friends
Praying
How plants
grow
Beautiful
Music
Spending
time with
family &
friends
What I will
be when I
grow up
Aliens and
outer
space
Space
LogicMathematical
Read or
listen to
stories
Existentialist
Linguistic
Letters and
words
Pray
Dream
about
possibilities
Painting
and
creating
Characters
from a
book or TV
Arts and
crafts
How
numbers
work
Spatial
Read or
look at
books and
comics
Do
Puzzles
Draw or
color
TOTAL
Building
things
I like to think about:
Sports
I am good at:
Play video
games
At home I like to:
Maps and
graphs
I am happy when I:
Move
At school, I like to
study:
By trying
things
Name:
Bodily-Kinesthetic
Intelligence
Pictorial MI Survey
Student Results
Existentialist
Interpersonal
TOTAL
Intrapersonal
I like to think about:
Musical
I am good at:
Natural
At home I like to:
LogicMathematical
I am happy when I:
Linguistic
At school, I like to
study:
Spatial
Name:
Bodily-Kinesthetic
Intelligence