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Green, Bridget – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2021
In modern Western education, the visual arts have come to hold a problematic position in the school curriculum. Art is often classified by school leaders, students, parents and even teachers as different from other subjects; sometimes viewed as almost magical, enabling students to explore and develop an innate creativity; sometimes simply…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Art Education, Correlation, Evaluation Methods
Australian Government Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, 2022
Work produced during a course of study in the creative arts may differ from assessment in other disciplines in the following ways: (1) it is non-text-based: work may consist of a performance, video recording, digital or interactive work, music composition, audio recording, or physical artefact; and (2) it is creative: works demonstrate individual…
Descriptors: Integrity, Creative Activities, Art Education, Video Technology
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Rockliffe, Andrew; Mckay, Jane – Research in Education, 2023
In this paper, we present a novel approach to defining, teaching, and assessing creativity by examining its origins and delineating the processes involved. The rationale for introducing this framework developed from studying existing thinking and questioning the current metrics for measuring creativity, which we posit are unfit for purpose. We…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Creative Teaching, Creativity, Learning Processes
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Andrade, Heidi; Hefferen, Joanna; Palma, Maria – Art Education, 2014
Classroom assessment is a hot topic in K-12 education because of compelling evidence that assessment in the form of feedback is a powerful teaching and learning tool (Hattie & Timperley, 2007). Although formal evaluation has been anathema to many art specialists and teachers (Colwell, 2004), informal assessment in the form of feedback is not.…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Visual Arts, Specialists, Student Evaluation
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Sweeny, Robert – Art Education, 2014
This article provides a transcript of an interview with Olivia Gude, member of the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards Writing Team. In the interview, Gude provides an overview of the process for writing the new visual arts standards.
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Academic Standards, Policy Formation, Interviews
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Berman, K. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2011
This article aims to interrogate possible assessment problems arising from a community-based-research mode of research and consider some of the assessment approaches that generate scepticism among some examiners, and endorsement from others. The article explores specific challenges in supervising, accommodating and evaluating diverse candidates…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Service Learning, Social Responsibility, Evaluation Methods
Ostenson, Jonathan William – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2012
Classroom teachers have been encouraged to incorporate more multimedia production in the classroom as a means of helping students develop critical media literacy skills. However, they have not always been well trained in how to evaluate the work students create; many teachers struggle to know which criteria to use in assessing student work. This…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Media Literacy, Multimedia Materials, Alignment (Education)
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Sandell, Renee – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2009
This article addresses the need to rebalance 21st-century art education for inclusion and integration leading to fuller art engagement in an increasingly visual world. I expand upon the form versus content canon in art and offset the typically predominant use of sensory, formal, or technical qualities in comprehending meaning from, as well as in…
Descriptors: Art Education, Visual Literacy, Painting (Visual Arts), Art Products
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Connelly, Mary; Wolf, Kenneth – Teaching Artist Journal, 2007
As communication tool, the rubric encourages active learning and the artistic development of students by providing language for assessing process and product. This article is intended to be the authors' chronicle of their personal journeys rather than a systematic study of the role that scoring rubrics--essentially a matrix that describes the key…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Student Evaluation, Scoring Rubrics, Active Learning
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Gantt, Linda M. – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2009
The Formal Elements Art Therapy Scale (FEATS) is a measurement system for applying numbers to global variables in two-dimensional art (drawing and painting). While it was originally developed for use with the single-picture assessment ("Draw a person picking an apple from a tree" [PPAT]), researchers can also apply many of the 14 scales of the…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Measures (Individuals), Art Therapy, Evaluation Methods
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Kay, Sandra – School Arts, 1982
Describes a process and criteria for identifying high school students gifted in visual arts. Student portfolios were assessed by local professionals according to technical ability, problem-solving ability, communication of ideas, and inventiveness. The procedure selected students whose ability was at least three years above their grade level. (AM)
Descriptors: Art Education, Evaluation Methods, Gifted, Portfolios (Background Materials)
Puurula, Arja; Karppinen, Seija – 2000
Student assessment is dependent on the educational views of the teacher. Arts pedagogy in comprehensive schools has several approaches, orientations, and even genres, each in turn having hidden practices of student evaluation. These stem on the one hand from the pedagogical tradition of the field (music, visual arts, drama, craft) and on the other…
Descriptors: Art Education, Comprehensive Programs, Dance, Drama
Brady, Darlene; Serban, William – Online, 1981
A search for stained glass bibliographic information using DIALINDEX identified 57 DIALOG files from a variety of subject categories and 646 citations as relevant. Files include applied science, biological sciences, chemistry, engineering, environment/pollution, people, business research, and public affairs. Eleven figures illustrate the search…
Descriptors: Art History, Business, Databases, Design Crafts
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Hughes, Philip – Journal of Art and Design Education, 1989
Deals with differences between drawing in art class and in other subjects. Points out that the latter are considered serious learning while learning promoted by art class is often dismissed. Advocates both rational analysis of art and the imaginative extension of such rational art as maps and diagrams to promote visual literacy. (KO)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Appreciation, Art Education, Art Expression
National Art Education Association, Reston, VA. – 1992
This brochure is designed to answer questions about visual arts education. It is a compilation of answers to questions that school board members and district administrators raise most often. Topics include the administrator's role in the district art program; values of art education; and staffing, budget, facilities, evaluation, standards, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Art Education, Educational Finance, Educational Policy
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