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Poster The Poster task allows students to demonstrate their ability to think critically about the intentions of visual messages. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are a poster and three stickers. This task is a part of the Viewing task series from 2002 by NEMP. |
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Robbers in the Night The Robbers in the Night task allows students to demonstrate their ability to order pictures to tell a story. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are comic picture cards. This task is a part of the Viewing task series from 1998. 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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Santa Gets Ready The Santa Gets Ready task allows students to demonstrate their ability to order pictures to tell a story. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are eight picture cards. This task is a part of the Viewing task series from 2002. 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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School Notices The School Notices task allows students to demonstrate their ability to recall and retell messages. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are an audio recording and a laptop computer. This task is a part of the Listening task series from 2006. 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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Shortland Street The Shortland Street task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret and understand body language. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a videotape with two short clips from Shortland Street episodes. This task is a part of the Viewing task series from 1998. 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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Silent Ads The Silent Ads task allows students to demonstrate their ability to think critically about visual messages. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a video recording and a laptop computer. This task is a part of the Viewing task series from 2006. 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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Skippy The Skippy task allows students to demonstrate their ability to understand persuasive techniques. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resource required for this task is a Skippy Cornflakes packet. This task is a part of the Viewing task series from 1998. 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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Storm-Fish The Storm-Fish task allows students to demonstrate their ability to think critically about advertising. 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 Viewing task series from 2006. 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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Sweet Stall The Sweet Stall task allows students to demonstrate their ability to evaluate a visual resource. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a video recording and a laptop computer. This task is a part of the Viewing task series from 2002 by NEMP. |
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TV Commercials The TV Commercials task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of persuasive techniques in television advertisements. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are two television advertisements and a laptop computer. This task is a part of the Viewing task series from 2002. 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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