1997 Arts Assessment Strategies ReportExercise Nine From the Interior Space Task

In the vast majority of creating and performing tasks on the assessment, students were asked to evaluate their own creating and performing work, as in this exercise.

Scoring Guide

4 - EXTENSIVE The student accurately and intelligently discusses aspects of spatial organization and other visual features that communicate the intended idea or experience. [Sample Response]

3 - ESSENTIAL The student discusses one or more aspects of composition and visual features in relation to the idea. The discussion is general and may contain some inaccuracies. [Sample Response]

2 - PARTIAL The student mentions an idea or experience, and makes vague reference to some aspects of composition or visual features. [Sample Response]

1 - UNACCEPTABLE The student fails to describe how the work communicates an idea or experience. Simply stating an idea in the first part of the question is unacceptable.

NOTE: Responses that do not plausibly reflect the work should receive a score of 1. Responses that inaccurately describe the work in part cannot get a score higher than 3. Be careful not to confuse inarticulate responses with misdescriptions of student work.

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