Nichole Thompson

Name of Assessment: Visual Interval Identification Test

Formal Formative/Formal Summative


Formal Formative:
1. Learning Target-
a. TWL be able to identify all Major, Perfect, and Minor intervals within an octave span on
both treble and bass clef staves with accidentals.
2. This assessment is used to see how students are coming along in learning intervals. They can
take the test as many times as they need to until they reach proficiency. Each time the test is
taken, the student is to send the teacher a verification code.
3. The online exercise keeps track of how many questions are answered correctly, but the teacher
uses the rubric to mark whether the assessment was completed satisfactorily.
4. The data is how many correct questions answered out of how many attempted in a specific
amount of time.
5. The teacher will use the data to see the progress of each student. When students are not
progressing the teacher may review the material in class if needed.
a. Proficiency is determined if 30 correct answers are completed in 10 minutes.
b. It will be a part of the test grade only when one of these two things happen:
i. The student completes the proficiency
ii. The last day of the semester has passed.
6. The students will be able to see how well they have done each time they take the test. They will
try to improve their score each time they take the test to compete against themselves.
7. Sample document attached.
8. Those who do not get it the first time can keep trying or the teacher can go over the material
with the student again if need be. Those who understand the material can focus upon the other
tests of musical skills or they can learn augmented and diminished intervals by looking under
lessons at music theory.net and clicking on Specific intervals.
(http://www.musictheory.net/lessons/31) They can then create exercises to practice identifying
intervals using their knowledge of augmented and diminished intervals.

Formal Summative:
1. The online exercise keeps track of how many questions are answered correctly, but the
teacher uses the rubric to mark whether the assessment was completed satisfactorily.
2. The data is how many correct questions answered out of how many attempted in a specific
amount of time.
3. The teacher will use the data to see the progress of each student in learning intervals. When
students are not progressing the teacher may review the material in class if needed.
a. Proficiency is determined if 30 correct answers are completed in 10 minutes.
b. It will be a part of the test grade only when one of these two things happen:
i. The student completes the proficiency
ii. The last day of the semester has passed.
4. Sample document attached.
5. Students can track their scores using the Student Record Sheet.
6. The student should know whether they have passed the assessment because the rubric and
the results are in their possession. The outcomes could be communicated with other
teachers if need be.
7. Blueprint attached.






















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Formal Summative Assessment