Option assessment criteria
Option one:
Call & response |
Option two:
Make a tune |
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| Excellent |
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- Fluent responses
- Well-shaped
- Imaginative connection with calls
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- Well-shaped
- Tempo well sustained
- Rhythmically accurate
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| Pass |
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- Responses keeping a steady pulse
- Some shape
- Responsive to calls
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- Some shape
- Tempo generally sustained
- Rhythm mainly accurate
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| Working Towards |
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- Responses lacking continuity
- Little shape
- Little connection with calls
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- Little shape
- Tempo not sustained
- Rhythmic errors
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Option three:
Question & answer |
Option four:
Sight-reading |
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| Excellent |
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- Accurate overall
- Well-shaped answer
- Fluent
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- Fluent
- Good note-reading
- Character well expressed
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| Pass |
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- Mainly accurate
- Controlled answer
- Steady pulse
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- Rhythm mainly accurate, with a mainly steady pulse
- Notes mostly correct
- Sense of the music expressed
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| Working Towards |
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- Unreliable note-reading
- Answer has little control
- Lack of continuity
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- Rhythmic errors
- Unreliable note-reading
- Limited sense of the music expressed
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