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Tiger Woods The Tiger Woods task allows students to demonstrate their ability to read body language. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are five thought bubbles and four photos of Tiger Woods. 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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To The Beach The To The Beach task allows students to demonstrate their ability to recall and interpret details. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resources required for this task are a map and oral instructions on the soundtrack of a videotape. This task is a part of the Listening 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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Tourist Map The Tourist Map task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a map and extract information from it. Students will complete this task working in station. The resource required for this task is a map. 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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Treasure Island The Treasure Island task allows students to demonstrate their ability to interpret a map. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a treasure map. 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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Wahine: The Wreck of the Wahine, 1988 The Wahine: The Wreck of the Wahine, 1988 task allows students to demonstrate their ability to recall and interpret details. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resource required for this task is a copy of an historical radio program presented on video. This task is a part of the Listening 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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Weather Forecast The Weather Forecast task allows students to demonstrate their inferential listening skills. 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 2002 by NEMP. |
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Weet-Bix Card The Weet-Bix Card task allows students to demonstrate their ability to think critically about the intentions of visually messages using a Weet-Bix advertisement. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resource required for this task is a Weet-Bix card. This task is a part of the Viewing task series from 2002 by NEMP. |
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Zak The Zak task allows students to demonstrate their ability to match dialogue to pictures and to draw appropriate conclusions. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resources required for this task are five pictures, an audio recording, and a laptop computer. This task is a part of the Listening task series from 2006 by NEMP. |
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Zippos The Zippos task allows students to demonstrate their ability to recall information, draw appropriate conclusions, and represent information visually. Students will complete this task working independently. 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 2002 by NEMP. |
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