NMSSA 2021: The Arts - Exemplars for teachers Publications
Publication Details
This set of exemplars illustrates the practical or ‘performance’ component of the assessment of the arts learning area carried out by the National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA) in 2021. One performance task from each of the four arts disciplines is described, along with annotated examples of the ways students responded, and suggestions to support teaching and learning.
Author(s): Educational Assessment Research Unit, University of Otago and New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: March 2023
Summary
Across all of the arts disciplines, it appeared that students at both year levels worked intuitively to complete the practical tasks. However, while they showed imagination and demonstrated perception, students were less able to describe their approach to, and realization of their ideas.
Deliberate exploration of the elements of the arts disciplines when engaging in creative arts contexts, should lead students to more confident experimental expression of artistic ideas, and more precise words to describe and respond to these ideas.
The Developing Practical Knowledge strand in the arts, as expressed in the NZC, describes exploration of the elements (level 2) and application of knowledge of the elements (level 4) as core outcomes of each discipline.
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