Assessing the arts
Subtitle: selected NAEP tasks and scoring guides for grades 4 and 12 : 1997 field test
By: National Center for Education Statistics.
Contributors: Educational Testing Service.; National Center for Education Statistics.
Series: The nation's report card
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of Education, Institute of Education Sciences
Published: 2003
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: National Assessment of Educational Progress (Project); Arts -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- United States -- Evaluation.; Arts -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States -- Evaluation.; Arts -- Ability testing -- United States.
Description: Provides sample assessment materials, such as written questions and creating and performing exercises and tasks, that were administered in NAEP Arts Field Tests in 1995 (grade 4) and in 1997 (grade 12). Offers arts educators, curriculum planners, and policymakers information on how NAEP developed, administered, and scored the performing, creating, and responding exercises and tasks that allowed an objective, large-scale assessment of student performance in the arts.
Notes: Title from disc label.
"Prepared by Educational Testing Service under a cooperative agreement with the National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences"--P. [4] of insert.
"June 2003"--Container.
"NCES 2003-452."
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