Scoring NAEP Arts ExercisesEvery exercise on the NAEP arts assessment (except multiple-choice questions) is accompanied by a "scoring guide." These guides were developed by the experienced arts educators, curriculum experts, and policymakers who were members of the Arts Development Committee. Scoring guides are used to assign scores to different levels of student performance on arts exercises. As an example, here is how a visual arts scoring guide for a collage task describes the top level of student performance. Effective: The ability to use collage technique is evidenced throughout the whole work. The work clearly shows both the inside and the outside of a remembered place, and the two are well-integrated. Look at the rest of the Collage task scoring guide. Every effort was made to develop clear and concrete criteria that would match the requirements of exercises. Clear and concrete scoring guides enabled the teams who scored student responses to apply scoring criteria fairly and consistently. Further, scoring criteria were designed to gather as much information as possible from student responses to complex performance tasks. For example, students' theatre performances were scored with a range of scoring guides intended to capture many dimensions of students' theatre knowledge and skills. To further ensure accuracy and consistency in scoring, experienced teachers in each of the arts were hired to train raters to apply scoring guides to student responses. Raters had either arts educational experience or degrees in the arts. Explore a variety of arts exercises, scoring guides, and student responses in the NAEP 1997 Arts Report Card.
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