Connoisseurship evaluation is a form of evaluation and educational inquiry having qualitative characteristics. In this study, these skills are seen among Malaysian art teachers in secondary schools. Quality assessment depends on the evaluator who has the ability of some aspects. Among these are qualitative nuances experiences as well as ability to…

Maintains that the computer is a new tool to link the concepts of information and art together. Asserts that electronic tools have a hidden point of view that is more complex than that included in a brush, printing press, or a camera. Concludes that there may be a move toward a reunion of art and science and of process and product. (CFR)

Considers recent changes in issues and strategies of art criticism and how these relate to computer-generated images and computer assisted instruction. These changes both reflect and inhabit the decentered, fragmentary, and flexible postmodernist vision. Preservice art teachers should become familiar with these changes. (MJP)

Describes the development and content of a videodisc collection titled "American Art from the National Gallery of Art." Maintains that the collection has helped teachers explore interdisciplinary approaches to art education. Includes examples of how teachers have used the collection in their classrooms. (CFR)

This New York City curriculum guide demonstrates the many ways in which art departments can use microcomputers to assist in teaching students to design different images, for different audiences and different purposes, utilizing the special ways in which computers can enhance the creative process. The book covers 168 topics, divided into 13…

Maintains that computers have provided a creative device for image creation and enhancement for visual arts educators. Traces the development of educational technology in art education from the 1940s to the present. Describes a four-part "visualization center" that will be the center for art education programs in the future. (CFR)

Papers by graduate students, and occasionally papers from their mentors which establish a context for the student papers, are organized by sponsoring University. Student papers presented are: (1) "A Husserlian Phenomenological Investigation of the Lived Experience of an Art Educator and Children" (Alan Wilson); (2) "Art in General…