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Assessment Rubric for Full Performance Level Benchmark Competency:
Module 311: Interpretive Media Development

 

The submitted project meets certification standards if:

-The text, graphics, objects, design, and other elements of the product work together to create an opportunity for the audience to form intellectual and emotional connections with meanings/significance inherent in the resource.

 

 

Descriptors:

  • Conveys that the interpreter understands how to work within the strengths and weaknesses of the chosen media
  • Effectively employs an interpretive structure of tangible-intangible links and universal concepts to convey resource meanings
  • Communicates an appropriate depth and amount of relevant information
  • Provides a balance of facts and acknowledges multiple points of view as appropriate
  • Uses photos, illustrations, and/or objects appropriately to create context, support content, and enhance connections to resource meanings
  • Effectively utilizes the physical space (page, panel, screen, bulletin board) to enhance interpretive effectiveness
  • Effectively applies the basic principles of design to develop/enhance relationships between the "things" or information (tangibles) being presented and the ideas or meanings (intangibles) they represent

The submitted project approaches certification requirements if:

-The text, graphics, objects, design, and other elements of the product either individually or as a group do not create an opportunity for the audience to form intellectual and emotional connections with meanings/significance inherent in the resource.

 


Descriptors:

  • Conveys that the interpreter does not understand how to work within the strengths and weaknesses of the chosen media
  • An interpretive structure of tangible-intangible links and universal concepts is not discernable, or not effectively developed to convey resource meanings
  • Contains an inappropriate depth and amount of information
  • Does not provide a balance of facts and acknowledgement of multiple points of view as appropriate
  • Use of photos, illustrations, and/or objects does not create context, or support content, or enhance connections to resource meanings
  • Utilizes the physical space (page, panel, screen, bulletin board) in a way that diminishes or derails interpretive effectiveness
  • Does not apply the basic principles of design to develop/enhance relationships between the "things" or information (tangibles) being presented and the ideas or meanings (intangibles) they represent

 

 

Last module update: September, 2001
Editor: STMA Training Manager Interpretation

 
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