Arts Education + Clear Assessment and Evaluation = Student Success

Tools, Tips and Techniques to Enhance Transparent Assessment and Evaluation Practices in Your Classroom.

Downloadable Handouts and Templates to be Adjusted To Your Classroom Environments.

Tracking Observations in the Classroom

This self assessment and goal setting handout can be altered to fit any performance or collaborative space. It will help students to:

• track their progress through the creative process, including how they worked with others 

• identify key pieces of feedback that helped them in their learning 

• a chart to set goals for the next performance/group collaboration/creative process activity. 

This tool can be used as a reflection tool, a conference worksheet, or a thought tracker throughout the process for the students to document key pieces of feedback.

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Stop, Start, Continue

A simple, start/stop/continue worksheet designed to be flexible and useful for both the classroom and professional development environment.

This handout will help people identify next steps. Customize the questions to fit your specific project.

Also useful in determining next steps in professional development, including:

• evaluating events and capturing feedback for future years

• midway checkpoint

• gathering data from multiple voices to set direction for the future

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Using Conversation Tasks For Evaluation

Interview and conversation starters for summative dramatic arts evaluations.

This handout has a series of “end of the year” reflection and consolidation questions. Can we adapted for end of unit interviews and for other arts disciplines. Document includes:

• learning goal and success criteria for conversation assessment

• a variety of questions that prompt critical thinking

• a sample rubric from the Ontario Curriculum that can be adapted to fit your classroom’s co-constructed success criteria

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