Grade 12 · lesson 4 of 4

Use Evidence Suitable for the Claim

An evaluation method should measure the claimed skill.

About 25 minutes, plus any extended practice

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Supplied materials

  • Paper and a pencil, typed notes or a browser scratch area. Color names can replace colored supplies; drawn figures and timelines can replace performance.
  • Complete teaching inputs: A reviewer sees a written score and correct text-quiz answers, but no performance sample. Which next evaluation matches the claim “can perform this work accurately”? Supplied candidates: (A) Certify all arts disciplines from one artifact (B) Invent a specialist’s approval (C) Treat text answers alone as proof of execution (D) Use a safe optional performance or suitable recorded demonstration with explicit execution criteria.
  • Independent check: A reviewer sees a storyboard and correct text-quiz answers, but no performance sample. Which next evaluation matches the claim “can perform this work accurately”? Supplied candidates: (A) Certify all arts disciplines from one artifact (B) Invent a specialist’s approval (C) Treat text answers alone as proof of execution (D) Use a safe optional performance or suitable recorded demonstration with explicit execution criteria.

Learn the idea

Bring structural reasoning and honest evaluation together. Audit a phrase against several constraints, interpret a nonchord tone from its supplied context, correct audiovisual cue offsets and design evidence suitable for a performance claim. An evaluation method should measure the claimed skill. Written artifacts and objective questions can establish analysis or planning, while accurate execution needs suitable observed performance evidence and transparent criteria.

Reason through the supplied case: The artifact and text checks establish aspects of knowledge, planning or analysis. Accurate execution requires evidence of execution against relevant pitch, timing, gesture, visibility or delivery criteria. A paper-only learner can still complete this curriculum without claiming that unobserved performance has been verified.

Performance remains optional in this curriculum, and paper-only work is legitimate. Do not fabricate specialist approval, certification or an observed demonstration that did not occur.

  1. Read the complete teaching inputs and mark the feature, rule or constraint being tested.
  2. Compare the model decision with one rejected candidate; state the visible evidence or calculation that distinguishes them.
  3. Solve the independent check and the three changed-input practice cases before reading feedback.
  4. Design separate evaluation rows for a written score and an optional performed version, naming evidence and criteria for each.
  5. Check your artifact against these explicit criteria: The score row checks notation and structure; the optional performance row checks observable pitch/timing or delivery and remains unverified until observed.
Worked example

See the method in action

A reviewer sees a written score and correct text-quiz answers, but no performance sample. Which next evaluation matches the claim “can perform this work accurately”? Supplied candidates: (A) Certify all arts disciplines from one artifact (B) Invent a specialist’s approval (C) Treat text answers alone as proof of execution (D) Use a safe optional performance or suitable recorded demonstration with explicit execution criteria. Model decision: Use a safe optional performance or suitable recorded demonstration with explicit execution criteria. The artifact and text checks establish aspects of knowledge, planning or analysis. Accurate execution requires evidence of execution against relevant pitch, timing, gesture, visibility or delivery criteria. A paper-only learner can still complete this curriculum without claiming that unobserved performance has been verified.

Your turn

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Helpful tips
  • An evaluation method should measure the claimed skill.
  • Performance remains optional in this curriculum, and paper-only work is legitimate.
A reviewer sees a storyboard and correct text-quiz answers, but no performance sample. Which next evaluation matches the claim “can perform this work accurately”?

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Use a safe optional performance or suitable recorded demonstration with explicit execution criteria

The artifact and text checks establish aspects of knowledge, planning or analysis. Accurate execution requires evidence of execution against relevant pitch, timing, gesture, visibility or delivery criteria. A paper-only learner can still complete this curriculum without claiming that unobserved performance has been verified.

Take it further

New-input analysis: A reviewer sees a three-voice arrangement and correct text-quiz answers, but no performance sample. Which next evaluation matches the claim “can perform this work accurately”? Supplied candidates: (A) Certify all arts disciplines from one artifact (B) Invent a specialist’s approval (C) Treat text answers alone as proof of execution (D) Use a safe optional performance or suitable recorded demonstration with explicit execution criteria. Expected relationship: Use a safe optional performance or suitable recorded demonstration with explicit execution criteria. The artifact and text checks establish aspects of knowledge, planning or analysis. Accurate execution requires evidence of execution against relevant pitch, timing, gesture, visibility or delivery criteria. A paper-only learner can still complete this curriculum without claiming that unobserved performance has been verified. Create your own artifact: Design separate evaluation rows for a written score and an optional performed version, naming evidence and criteria for each. Completion criteria: The score row checks notation and structure; the optional performance row checks observable pitch/timing or delivery and remains unverified until observed.

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More practice: try new cases

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More practice: try new cases
1. A reviewer sees a blocking diagram and correct text-quiz answers, but no performance sample. Which next evaluation matches the claim “can perform this work accurately”?
Need a hint?
  • An evaluation method should measure the claimed skill.
  • Performance remains optional in this curriculum, and paper-only work is legitimate.
2. A reviewer sees a movement count plan and correct text-quiz answers, but no performance sample. Which next evaluation matches the claim “can perform this work accurately”?
Need a hint?
  • An evaluation method should measure the claimed skill.
  • Performance remains optional in this curriculum, and paper-only work is legitimate.
3. A reviewer sees an original illustration and correct text-quiz answers, but no performance sample. Which next evaluation matches the claim “can perform this work accurately”?
Need a hint?
  • An evaluation method should measure the claimed skill.
  • Performance remains optional in this curriculum, and paper-only work is legitimate.

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