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Art Object A The Art Object A task allows students to demonstrate their ability to identify the materials and equipment used for a piece of art and explain the processes used for making selected art objects. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are three pictures. This task is a part of the Responding to Art task series from 1999 by NEMP. |
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Art Objects The Art Objects task allows students to demonstrate their ability to identify the materials and equipment used for a piece of art and explain the processes used for making selected art objects. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are three pictures. This task is a part of the Responding to Art task series from 2003. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments. |
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Art You Know The Art You Know task allows students to demonstrate their ability to identify and explain a favorite work of art. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. There are no resources required for this task. This task is a part of the Responding to Art task series from 2007 by NEMP. |
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Art in Social Contexts The Art in Social Contexts task allows students to demonstrate their knowledge, understandings, and ideas about art used in social contexts. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are photographs. This task is a part of the Responding to Art task series from 1995 by NEMP. |
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Bird Battle The Bird Battle task allows students to demonstrate their ability to compose a picture by creating, selecting and assembling shapes, colors and textures in ways that give expressive impact. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task a video recording on a laptop computer, paper, scissors, glue sticks, and base sheets. This task should be completed in forty minutes. This task is a part of the Making Art task series from 2003. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments. |
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Cave Creature The Cave Creature task allows students to demonstrate their ability to produce an expressive colored drawing based on an imaginative idea, using skills of composition and media effects. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are a video, oil pastels, crayons, paper, a cardboard under-surface, and a tray. This task is to be completed in twenty minutes. This task is a part of the Making Art task series from 1999 by NEMP. |
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Choosing a Picture The Choosing a Picture task allows students to demonstrate their ability to work collaboratively to select a piece of art and justify their choice. Students will complete this task working in teams. The resources required for this task are photographic reproductions of paintings. This task is a part of the Responding to Art task series from 1995 by NEMP. |
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Clay Model The Clay Model task allows students to demonstrate their ability to use and control the medium of clay to create three-dimensional forms that interact expressively with each other. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are blocks of clay, a pointed dowel stick, a mat, a wooden spatula, and a base card. This task is to be completed in forty minutes. This task is a part of the Making Art task series from 1999. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments. |
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Clay Person The Clay Person task allows students to demonstrate their ability to use the medium of clay to create a three-dimensional form. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are four blocks of clay, four pointed dowel sticks, four desk covers, four white plastic bases, four ice block sticks, four wooden steps, four pieces of paper, four pencils, four cue cards, and four dampened sponges. This task is to be completed in forty minutes. This task is a part of the Making Art task series from 2007. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments. |
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Dog Walk The Dog Walk task allows students to demonstrate their ability to create and depict an expressive image appropriate to a defined context (dog walk) and perform a demonstrated printmaking process. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a video on laptop computer, brayer, a tube of purple ink, a desk cover, a sheet of newsprint paper, a blue greasy crayon, a pencil, a card plate, and an inking plate. This task is a part of the Making Art task series from 2003 by NEMP. |
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