Assessment and Evaluation

Arts and Media Basics: Evaluation Index
http://www.openc.k12.or.us/start/visual/basics/eval/

A concise evaluation primer from the Support for Teachers in Art (STArt) website - includes suggestions for talking to students about their work and some general comments on assessment in the visual arts.

Assessment and Portfolio Collections - North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts
http://www.art.unt.edu/ntieva/artcurr/assessment/port.html

Defines different types of assessment in the visual arts, including the use of student portfolios.

Developing an Arts Assessment: Some Selected Strategies
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/pubs/strategies/

The purpose of this web report is to use the NAEP arts assessment and field test as a case study to explore useful strategies for developing an arts performance assessment.

Print Resources

NAEA Publications List
http://www.naea-reston.org/publications-list.html#assessment

• No. 211 Assessing Expressive Learning
  By Charles M. Dorn, Stanley S. Madeja, and F. Robert Sabol. 208 pgs {2004) ISBN: 0-8058-4524-0
• No. 203 Designing Assessment in Art
  By Carmen L. Armstrong. 216 pgs. {1994} ISBN 0-937652-71-7
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