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Visual Art Assessment For Middle School Students, Kathryn Batlle

Masters Theses, 2010-2019

This research study was designed by a middle school art teacher to fulfill the new teacher evaluation requirements in Virginia. The study was implemented in a sixth grade art classroom of sixteen students in the 2012 fall semester. This research study investigated the use of an authentic assessment tool to document student growth in a middle school art classroom. This performance assessment tool, evaluating student artwork, used detailed criterion-referenced rubrics to score student achievement in units focused on drawing and painting. The design included a pre- and post-instruction artwork that was assessed with the created rubrics. Student artwork was organized …

Pairing Affective Skills With Art Making, Tiana N. Thompson

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

ABSTRACT OF PROJECT

Pairing Affective Skills with Art Making

This purpose of this project is to explore the parallel of creative thinking and the development of art making with the use of affective skills of creative problem solving. Affective skills all provide an emotional or behavioral skill that influence creative thinking in the art making process. Emotions set the foundation to creative ideas and concepts. Art is an experimental process that allows me the chance to visually interpret those emotions and to provide inner peace and comfort within. The finished product is a book that gives a detailed overview of …

Living Between Two Worlds: Conflict, Investigation And The Change, Noura Abdulhameed Shuqair

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Beginning with my exploration of art as an aesthetic object, this paper shows the growth of my work and concept. Through my practice, I have been able to understand the contradictions in my traditional society and western modernity. It has helped me grapple with my own beliefs, and begin to confront those I don't agree with.