Storytelling Assessment and Scoring Instrument

University of Phoenix

Storytelling Assessment and Scoring Instrument

The assessment presented in this instrument serves as an arts-based performance assessment. Suskie (2009) argued performance assessments merge learning and assessment in a messy real-world experience. Providing this design to learners enables personal ownership in learning and development of skills through application.

Target Audience

This assessment measures the achievement of adult students in an oral storytelling class studying skills essential to telling an influential oral story.

Definition

The influential oral story forms around a plot conflict increasing in intensity to a point of crisis where the protagonist finds resolution. Influential stories create...