Living with the New Arts

Assessments(and kinda enjoying it)

Washington State Arts Program Goal:

All 296 school districts will provide comprehensive, sequential, standards-based K-12 arts programs in dance, music, theatre, and the visual arts for ALL students.

“What is a CBPA anyway?”

• A CLASSROOM PERFORMANCE-BASED ASSESSMENT

• Scored by the teacher (or a group of teachers)

• Provide awareness of individual students meeting standard on what they need to be able to do (not just know) in the arts

It is a summative assessment (but can be used as a formative assessment)

What do the Arts CBPAs look like?

Anaholistic CLASSROOM-BASED ASSESSMENTS

•Analytical

•Holistic

Notation/Composition Assessment

• You have 2 - 30 minute sessions to write an 8 measure melody that uses standard music notation. The melody must begin on middle “C” and end on middle “C”. The melody must use a mixture of quarter notes, half notes, and whole notes.

• The melody is to be written on the music manuscript paper provided by your teacher.

School News Music Theme

• The principal of your school has announced that a new television news show will be started in the school. The news show will be broadcast throughout the school each morning to every classroom. You have been asked to write a musical “theme” that will be played at the beginning and end of the show.

• Your “theme” needs to be at least 15 seconds in length and can be written in standard or modified notation.

• If you piece is selected to be used for the show, it will be orchestrated by the music teacher for any group of five instruments.

• When you complete your melody, you will need to write the names of the five instruments you would like to use in your musical composition.

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“… You gave the assessment. Now what do you do?”

Scoring will be done in the districts or at the ESD level

• Teachers will be trained in scoring based on a set of RUBRIC developed by the OSPI AALT team

• Responses will be scored on a 4,3,2,1,0 scale

• Districts will be required to report back to the state

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Finding meaning in the process

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“One who buries their head in the sand many times gets shot in the

south end!”

“If I run fast enough, maybe it’ll go away!”

“I’ve been teaching for many, many years and I found these things

cycle out after awhile.”

“We need to teach to the WHOLE child ”

“Providing creativity, innovation and

imagination through all subjects… including the

arts”