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Elementary Music

Developed for a 3rd grade pretest of skills

Rubric Code: X7CAX6

By jburoker

Draft

Public Rubric

Subject: Music

Type: Assessment

Grade Levels: K-5

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	Poor 1 pts	Fair 2 pts	Good 3 pts	Proficient 4 pts	Excellent 5 pts
Beat/rhythm	Poor Student cannot display or explain the difference between beat and rhythm. Cannot mirror the beat or rhythm with the teacher.	Fair Student struggles to follow a beat or rhythm in class activities. Does have some success in mirroring the teacher.	Good Student can follow a beat or rhythm in guided practice and in class activities. No longer requires direct teacher involvement to stay with the group.	Proficient Student can demonstrate the difference between beat and rhythm individually with some hesitation and inaccuracy present.	Excellent Student demonstrates clapping a rhythm and patting a beat to a known song without hesitation and with a strong, steady pulse.
Rhythm clapping	Poor Student demonstrates no ability to read rhythms.	Fair Student can say the names of the rhythms, but struggles to interpret them by clapping.	Good Student claps the rhythm shown on a flash card with some hesitation and an inconsistent beat with some errors.	Proficient Student claps the rhythm shown with little hesitation and a generally consistant beat with few errors	Excellent Student reads and claps while following a steady beat set by the teacher with complete accuracy and no hesitation.
Pitch accuracy	Poor Student demonstrates no ability to hear and match pitch. Student cannot differentiate between head voice and chest voice.	Fair Student matches most pitches incorrectly. Student attempts to use head voice with little consistency.	Good Student matches some pitches incorrectly, especially in singing intervals. Student can sing in head voice.	Proficient Student matches most pitches correctly, with some slight inaccuracy (slightly flat or sharp). Intervals are generally accurate. Student can sing in head voice.	Excellent Student matches pitch and sings intervals with complete accuracy. Student sings with head voice with ease.
Tone quality	Poor Student's singing voice is not naturally pleasing. Voice is breathy, harsh, or nasal in quality.	Fair Student demonstrates little ability to produce a pure tone when singing. Tone may be throaty or nasal	Good Student demonstrates some ability to sing with a pure and consistent tone.	Proficient Student's singing voice is usually pleasing to listen to, having qualities of being pure and open.	Excellent Student's singing voice is naturally rich, free and open. Very pleasing to listen to.
Posture	Poor Student does not stand with good singing posture, despite reminders from the teacher.	Fair Student stands with good singing posture less than 25% of the time.	Good Student stands wih good singing posture approximately 50% of the time.	Proficient Student stands with good singing posture most of the time (75%)	Excellent Student stands with good singing posture 100% of the time with no reminders from the teacher.
Focus	Poor Student is generally distracted during classtime, despite frequent reminders from the teacher	Fair Student remains on task about 25% of the time. Requires frequent reminders from the teacher.	Good Student remains on task about 50% of the time. Requires some reminders from the teacher.	Proficient Student remains on task about 75% of the time. Requires few reminders from the teacher.	Excellent Student is on task and giving effort 100% of the time. Reminders from the teacher are unnecessary..

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Music

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