Concept:The correct answer is option 4. Option 1 can be negated from the get-go as Howard Gardner had never insisted that the teaching curriculum and evaluation methodology needed to be multi-dimensional. What he had said was that human intelligence can be sub-categorized into multiple kinds. Option 2 can be negated in a similar fashion as the educationists were directly involved in the development and assessment of multiple intelligences, not Howard Gardner. Option 3 can be negated as the development and assessment of multiple intelligences was not the primary goal of the educationists. The primary goal was to prescribe multi-dimensional curriculums and evaluation parameters. The effect of such a prescription would be seen in the development and assessment of multiple intelligences. Option 4 follows directly from the second sentence of the passage.