Description of the Performance Assessment Performance prompts ask each student to create a piece of art based on the criteria outlined in the prompt. The teacher should collect all of the student’s work to facilitate scoring and to document each student’s performance. The clay vessels that the students construct may be photographed or collected (or both) to show that the students completed the task. Students must also respond to short-answer questions and instructions. Their answers may be written or verbal. All written work must be completed on the response sheets provided. All verbal responses must be recorded to facilitate scoring and to document each student’s performance. Students should complete all required sketches on the sheets of paper provided in the student’s copy of the assessment. Learning Standards This assessment addresses Washington State Learning Standards for Visual Arts, including the GLEs from the Options for Implementing the Arts Standards through Visual Arts by Grade Level document. GLE 1.1.1 Applies, analyzes, and creates the element line when producing a work of art. Grades 7–8 Applies, analyzes, and creates the elements shape and form when GLE 1.1.2 producing a work of art. Grades 7–8 GLE 2.1.1 Applies a creative process to visual arts. Grades 7–8 GLE 2.2.1 Applies a performance and/or presentation process to visual arts. Grades 7–8 Applies a responding process to a presentation/exhibit of visual GLE 2.3.1 arts. Grades 7–8 Analyzes the ways that visual arts are used to express feelings and GLE 3.1.1 present ideas and applies his/her understanding when creating Grades 7–8 artworks. Analyzes visual artworks that communicate for a specific purpose GLE 3.2.1 and applies his/her understanding when creating artworks. Grades 7–8
Description of the Performance Assessment Performance prompts ask each student to create a piece of art based on the criteria outlined in the prompt. The teacher should collect all of the student’s work to facilitate scoring and to document each student’s performance. The clay vessels that the students construct may be photographed or collected (or both) to show that the students completed the task. Students must also respond to short-answer questions and instructions. Their answers may be written or verbal. All written work must be completed on the response sheets provided. All verbal responses must be recorded to facilitate scoring and to document each student’s performance. Students should complete all required sketches on the sheets of paper provided in the student’s copy of the assessment. Learning Standards This assessment addresses Washington State Learning Standards for Visual Arts, including the GLEs from the Options for Implementing the Arts Standards through Visual Arts by Grade Level document. GLE 1.1.1 Grades 7–8 Applies, analyzes, and creates the element line when producing a work of art. GLE 1.1.2 Grades 7–8 Applies, analyzes, and creates the elements shape and form when producing a work of art. GLE 2.1.1 Grades 7–8 Applies a creative process to visual arts. GLE 2.2.1 Grades 7–8 Applies a performance and/or presentation process to visual arts. GLE 2.3.1 Grades 7–8 Applies a responding process to a presentation/exhibit of visual arts. GLE 3.1.1 Grades 7–8 Analyzes the ways that visual arts are used to express feelings and present ideas and applies his/her understanding when creating artworks. GLE 3.2.1 Grades 7–8 Analyzes visual artworks that communicate for a specific purpose and applies his/her understanding when creating artworks.