Scoring a Visual Arts Creating Task

For the Whisper Box task, students' works were scored with a four-level holistic scoring guide that allowed for two levels of partial credit. The guide asked raters to assign scores to packages based on how well, overall, each package dealt with two challenges. The first was communication: in other words, how well students used colors, images, and typeface to convey a whisper or scream. The second was dimensionality, and referred to how well students unified and integrated their designs with type, shape, and color on the three-dimensional surface of the box.

Sample Guide

Assign one holistic score (1-4) that represents the following:

Communication: Colors, images, type work to tell you what's in the box.

Dimensionalty: Unity/integration of type, shapes, colors

Special Cases:

• No color, OR only in a few disparate places = 1
• 2 Sides undone (blank or no color) = no higher than 2
• 3 Sides undone (blank or no color) = 1
• Bottom doesn't count, unless box bottom treated as top.
• Unusual solutions OK maybe for blank sides--consult.
• If box is very self-contradictory--you can't tell = 1

View student responses to the Whisper Box task.

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Last updated 19 December 2003 (CC)