Assessment in Art Education

by Donna Kay Beattie

Book Overview

Provides a presentation of what a practising teacher needs to know about assessment. This book details and evaluates performance assessment strategies, including the portfolio, art journals, and a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871923637
• ISBN13: 9780871923639
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Davis Publications
• Length: 147 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Applicable to all arts

Donna Kay has done an amazing service to arts educators with this book. The text is written for visual arts teachers, but its principles can be applied just as easily to the disciplines of music, dance or theatre. As most arts educators can attest, we often go to assessment workshops that just teach the classroom teachers to do what we do every day. We needed a book to teach us how to effectively assess how our students create and perform. Donna Kay does that with this book. She first defines assessment, then gives an outline of specific assessments that are appropriate for an art classroom. Each chapter begins with a real-world story that leads into the text. Chapter 2 contains the most practical, ready-to-be-used information; there are 58 innovative, authentic assessment tasks that can be used within the framework of an arts lesson. This is a fantastic resource for pre-service teachers and also for teachers who have been in the classroom for years. It would make a great book study for the arts teachers in a school district. Along these lines I would also recommend Marilyn Stewart's Thinking Through Aesthetics. On a side note, if you ever have the chance to see Donna Kay Beattie present in person, you need to go. She is a phenomenal presenter who will absolutely blow your mind.

A usefull tool

Reviews what is needed for a strong art curriculum. Assessment tools are readily adaptable.