Wk 7: Art Assessment

Assessment is an ongoing process where you are to gather evidence from your students throughout the academic year of visual arts (Gibson, 2013). Students should understand that assessment is good for not only their self-esteem, but is also good for “deep learning” (Gibson and Ewing, 2011, p. 195) which is the processes they go, through and after an activity (McArdle, 2012, p. 50). Students can assess their own work and others through self-assessment and peer-assessment (Gibson and Ewing, 2011, p. 197). This is called “questioning” (Gibson, 2013) where critical thinking and skills are used to further their understanding of where they are as an artist and where they are in stages of personal development (Gibson, 2013). Child-based and teacher-based assessment will be used together within the classroom because seeing what children can do and knowing what students understand in your classroom can help them become better learners and have more self-awareness of who they are as an individual.

Using the instrument "the view finder" to create a montage of the "Tire" by Roy Liechtenstein (my interpretation).
Created in wk. 7 of Visual Arts workshop.

References

Gibson, R. (2013, April 22). Assessment of Visual Arts Learning. Unpublished lecture notes, University of Sydney, Australia.

Gibson R., and Ewing, R. (2011). Transforming the Curriculum through the Arts. South Yarra: Palgrave.

McArdle, F. (2012). The visual arts: Ways of seeing. In S. Wright (Ed.), Children, Meaning-Making and the Arts, (pp. 30-56). Frenchs Forest: Pearson Australia.