Many collages at this level showed either no use of collage techniques, or, as in this work, very limited use. This student has used collage to show smokestacks on a building, but the rest of the work is drawn. The work is colorful and does succeed in conveying a building covered with graffiti, but it does not do so with collage techniques.

At this level, the ability to use collage to express a memory of a place was barely evidenced. This student seems to be trying to represent a house, and it is possible that both inside and outside areas are shown. Collage is used to show what are probably windows, a roof, and what could be a door, although the circular shape near the bottom of the work is ambiguous. Overall, the work lacks a scheme of place and relies on basic forms without detail.

Students at the Uneven level exhibited the ability to use collage techniques in parts of their works. Their choice and use of materials showed occasional awareness of pattern, texture, color, contrasts, and the relationships of these qualities to depicted objects. Parts of their works sometimes lacked variation or experimentation with materials. Collages at this level also sometimes showed a lack of compositional unity and an uneven ability to capture a mood or feeling about a remembered place. This example of an Uneven collage uses materials in interesting ways here and there. The textured cardboard seems to show a roof, while the marbled paper in the bottom half of the work may be the outside of a house upon which an interior scene is drawn with craypas. Although the work demonstrates some awareness of composition, it is hard to tell what is outside and what is inside.

The student works chosen to show the Adequate level each demonstrate the ability to use collage technique throughout most of the work. Each shows both the inside and outside of a remembered place, although the two areas in each work may not be well-integrated or equally well done. Forms and objects in each work are generally clear and have distinguishable features, and most objects are shown in relation to one another and to the whole page. Each collage is also reasonably expressive. This example of student work shows a deliberate use of technique and color to depict certain objects and to convey the feeling of a remembered place. Red construction paper contrasts with the yellow half of the house to represent the inside area. The inside is identifiable by the contrasting paper and by the bed with a teddy bear on it drawn in craypas. While both the exterior and interior could have been more effectively integrated, overall, this student has addressed several components of the problem.

The student collage chosen to show the Effective level demonstrates the ability to use collage techniques throughout the whole work. The collage clearly shows both the inside and outside of a remembered place. The inside and outside areas are skillfully done and are well-integrated. Materials are used in deliberate ways to represent ideas, forms and objects. Finally, objects are effectively combined and organized in unexpected ways that appear to express the quality of a memory. Very few students (1 percent) were able successfully to address this many components of the problem. This example of Effective work shows an excellent sense of pattern, texture, color, transparency, and contrast. Mounds of snow in a snowstorm are effectively rendered with overlapping, repeated shapes of blue and gray tissue paper. A capacity to evoke the mood or feeling of a remembered place is evident in the rhythmic pattern of dark trees varying in size and at angles to one another, and in the pattern of dark clouds that frame the scene. An interior space is clearly shown by a large shape of more tissue paper, suggesting a hollow in the snow or, as the student explains, a cave. The two abstract figures, the windows, and the fire done with construction paper all add detail and clarity to the interior area, and separate it from the woods outside.