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Draw It The Draw It task allows students to demonstrate their ability to make a composition using a computer drawing program. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a computer program on a laptop computer and a Draw It instruction booklet. This task is to be completed in ten minutes. This task is a part of the Making Art task series from 2007 by NEMP |
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Eye Catcher The Eye Catcher task allows students to demonstrate their ability to describe the elements of a painting and their responses to the painting. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resource required for this task is a picture. This task is a part of the Responding to 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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Firebird Pastel and Crayon Drawing The Firebird Pastel and Crayon Drawing 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 pastels, crayons, paper, and a drawing board. This task should be completed in twenty-five minutes. This task is a part of the Making Art task series from 1995 by NEMP. |
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Firebirds The Firebirds task allows students to demonstrate their ability to identify and explain the features of successful picture making. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are pictures. This task is a part of the Responding to Art task series from 1999 by NEMP. |
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Fireghost The Fireghost task allows students to demonstrate their ability to produce an expressive color pastel drawing based on an imaginative idea. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are a video recording on a laptop computer, four sets of oil pastels, four sheets of grey paper, card board bases, and desk covers. This task is to be completed in twenty 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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George Street The George Street task allows students to demonstrate their ability to identify and evaluate the relative merits of two contrasting forms of artistic depiction of a scene. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task a photograph and a picture. This task is a part of the Responding to Art task series from 2003 by NEMP. |
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Imaginary Forest Painting The Imaginary Forrest task allows students to demonstrate their ability to create an expressive painting from an imaginative idea, showing a variety of shapes, detail, color mixing and spatial effects. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are paint brushes, chalk, paint, a palette, a mixing tray, water, a sponge, and manilla brown paper. This task is to be completed in forty-five minutes. This task is a part of the Making Art task series from 1995 by NEMP. |
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Insect Head Collage The Insect Head Collage task allows students to demonstrate their ability to compose a picture 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 are photographs, a set of papers, scissors, a glue stick, and a base sheet. This task is to be completed in thirty minutes. This task is a part of the Making Art task series from 1995 by NEMP. |
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Kiwi Pencil Drawing The Kiwi Pencil Drawing task allows students to demonstrate their ability to use drawing processes to describe the main features and form of a displayed object. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are a kiwi, four pencils, four pieces of paper, a bag of leaves, four tote trays, cardboard bases, four 3-point position bases. This task is to be completed in fifteen 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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Landscapes The Landscapes task allows students to demonstrate their ability to identify similarities and differences in a range of styles of painting. Students will complete this task working independently. The resources required for this task are set of twelve photographic reproductions of landscape paintings by six artists. This task should be completed in thirty minutes. This task is a part of the Responding to Art task series from 1999 by NEMP. |
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