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MS Percussion Assessments

Snare, keyboard and timpani

Each assessment scores a student's playing one criterion at a time, against cues you can see and hear, with room for the student's own score beside yours. Print it, cut it into pass-off cards, or fill it in on a screen.

  • Coming soon · not on sale yet
  • Printable and fillable PDFs
  • No student accounts, no data collected

What's in each assessment

Each of the three MS assessments downloads as its own set of files.

  • A fillable PDF: the quick-score form, a 1–5 evidence guide and an implementation guide
  • The quick-score sheet to print, one per page or two per page
  • Pass-off cards, four to a page, with cut lines and three blank cards for open observation
  • A one-page director quick-fix reference of common problems and fixes
  • Projector slides: an editable PowerPoint file that opens in Google Slides, PowerPoint or Keynote, and a PDF to project as is
  • Every print file in color and in black and white
  • Scored 1–5 with N/A, by the student and by the director. N/A is left out of the average, and 0 is not used.
The MS Snare fillable quick-score form: five criteria with observable cues, a student score and a director score for each, and the director's overall level. The printable MS Snare quick-score sheet, one per page, with student and director score columns beside the cues. A page of MS Snare pass-off cards: Technique, Rhythmic Accuracy, Dynamic Control, and Articulation and Clarity, each with student and director score boxes.

Coming soon

One bundle

MS Assessment 3-Pack

The Snare, Keyboard and Timpani assessments.

Fits

Weekly pass-offs, semester juries, contest-preparation checkpoints and student self-assessment in a middle school percussion program.

What it is not

It does not score playing for you: the cues say what to listen and look for, and the score is your observation of one performance. No student accounts, no data collected.

License

One teacher's license. Print, copy and fill in the forms for your own students, every year you teach, and edit the projector slides for your classes. Do not give the files to other teachers or post them publicly; a school buys one copy for each teacher.

The MS assessments are being revised and are not on sale yet, and this page will say so until they are. Questions: email taylor@backwerdrimshot.com.