Blog NUMBER 7!!!!!!

ASSESSMENT

Why Use Assessment in art?
I believe that art needs to be assessed in the form of process, understanding, problem solving and reflection. I believe this because these are some of the most valuable attributes of art education. I believe that if these areas area assessed then teachers will be able to see if their projects are working for their students, if the students are growing and learning the expected values from their projects and lastly so that the teacher can learn about their own teaching. Art students will also need assessment to ensure that they keep growing and keep working hard on their projects. I do not mean this just as a form of incentive but it will act as checks and balances for both the students as they try to achieve the targets set up by their assignments and for the teacher as they try to help their students throughout their adventures. I believe documentation to be extremely useful for both the student and the teacher. The student can assess their own experience by thinking about what they are doing and have done, while the teacher can use the documentation to see the journey of the student and their struggles and joys.

Students that learn how to reflect and document through their art assignments students will be able to:
-Learn how to question their process. This will enable students to look at how they receive information, how the project makes them feel, what are their fears and questions, and how they plan to attack their project. If students do this they will be able to contemplate other problems in their other classes and learn how to look at them from multiple angles. Students will also be able to question what is taking place an look at their experiences analytically in their other classes, because when using documentation a student is able to reflect upon their process.

Students who are Assessed will be able to gain many skills that can be useful both in their other classes and in future endeavors. These are some ideas about their achievements:

Students that partake in artistic critiques are given strength in speaking publicly and are able to problem solve in a group setting. This will be useful in many careers as team work is always an asset. Public speaking is useful in any classes that either require projects to be presented and it also gives students confidence to speak about their feelings and ideas when class participation is required.

Students who are able to work on expressing their feelings through visual representation and have been able to reflect on them will certainly be able to represent other projects visually,for example media art skills can be used for science, or paintings for social studies.

Assessment helps to validate a students ability to focus their creative thoughts as they work on their art projects. They are able to reflect their ideas and thoughts on social commentary or personal catharsis which is then centralized into final products and is worked with in planning and documentation. If students are on target with these attributes they will be able to use these skills in classes that demand focused thought and innovative ideas like in physics, chemistry, biology, and language arts.

Self Assessment in Art can help in other classes such as:
-Science: checking and re-checking ideas is useful in labs when a students needs to carefully look at results.
-Language Arts: Ensuring that their ideas are focused.
-Language Arts: Critical conversations about art forms, such as readings done.
-Math: Writing down your steps will help to ensure that the best answer is achieved.
-Physical Education: Students who document a goal and work towards it and then reflect on it's outcome.
-Science: Explaining the outcomes of the experiments is similar to explaining how art came to be.
-Paper writing: Conclusions of papers resemble when students explain their critiques.