Assessing Student
Knowledge
Assessing
Julie Stone
Art Teacher, NBCT
Student
Teacher
WHY
Should I Assess Students
Not always is it about the students learned
knowledge, sometimes it is about how well
did you teach the lesson. Assessing students
helps you evaluate student and teacher.
Lets talk about YOU
What are your characteristics for Teaching
Viacharacter.org
Howard Gardner Multiple Intelligence
http://www.edutopia.org/multiple-intelligences-learning-styles-quiz
Question? Do you have the Joy of Teaching?
can be achieved as long as you are assessing/critiquing yourself as a teacher (instructional improvement), control
the positive environment you teach in (well-balanced climate, data driven, viable curriculum), and continue to want
to grow as the students and technology keep changing (collaborative culture).
Brain Break
What type of Artistic Learner are you?
Test? Ugh?
Checking how you learn:
Blind Contour Drawing
Tactile Lesson
Listening Lesson
Left or Right Brain
We all have two cerebral hemispheres that constantly interact but each have specific
functions. The left hemisphere breaks down problems and analysis. The right hemisphere
is interested in everything and innovates. The ideal is to foster communication between the
two brains. But our education, or our temperament, sometimes leads us to favor one of
these two areas.
Beginning, Middle and End of
the Assessment Process
Prior to assessing:
Legally you must know who has extended time and accommodations
Do you know their characteristics for how they learn? There are many ways to assess this:
True Colors
Left Brain/Right Brain
Pre tests help you prepare to teach the
lesson to all the learning levels.
Mid-Way Assess? How?
Student Assess through journaling
Post tests help you see how well the students
clearly comprehended the lesson.
Documenting
Student Assessments
Critiquing/Glow and Grow
Individual/Group or Teacher
Meets success criteria level 3 or 4 work
Identify areas done WELL
Most, all thorough, considerable, HIGH DEGREE
Identify with a yellow marker or highlighter to show where you GLOW in your
work.
Doesnt meets success criteria - level 1 or 2 work
Identify areas for improvement
Some, few, limited, with assistance.
Identify with a Green marker or highlighter to show where you GROW in your
work.
My Favorite Sub Lesson
for a Grade
TIMING
Obstacles:
I have only 30 minutes once a week.
Set Goals
Plan a simplified assessment that would be
appropriate for the lesson learned (10 min)
Evaluate Purpose
How effective was the lesson/ my
teaching/student learned outcome?
Real Assessments in less than
30 minutes
It is important that my students complete an
assessment and work on producing their
artwork during the class time that I teach.
Assessments can vary.
Example: African Mask Art lesson
Pre Assessment
Pre and Post Assessment
with a WOW
Cultural Meaning communicated in Art
Name:________________________
1. Describe specific Elements and Principles of Design that you can recognize in the African
Masks?
______________________________________________________________________________
__
2. Masks were used for ceremonial purposes. T F
3. Cultural Meaning is
______________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
4. Picasso and Matisse were influenced by the lines, shapes, patterns used in African Art? T F
5. Animals, shapes and colors, can be used in art as symbols that stand for something else.
T F
6. List other people in ancient times who communicated messages through pictures.
1.
2.
3.
Lets discuss the first 5 thoughts
that come to your mind.
Group Assessment
Group Mask
Your team will design an African Mask using the following
information: You are located near a small village near
Zambezi (Central Africa) you materials are iron metal
or clay.
Using the listed Elememts of Design as symbols, list what you would
use and what messge it represents. You do not have to use all of
them.
Colors Lines Shapes
Patterns
Purpose:
How and Why will this mask be used?
(Hint: to help you design the purpose: dance, monthly or annually,
rain, farming, a king or queen in power)
Draw a sketch of your mask below:
Self Evaluation
Art Evaluation for African Masks
Completed the Assignment
(3 pts.) ____Met and exceeded all expectations in allotted time
(2 pts.) ____ Met all expectations in allotted time
(1 pt.) ____Met some expectations in allotted time
(0 pts.) ____Met few expectation in allotted time
Craftsmanship/Neatness
(3 pts.) ____Exceptional quality work
(2 pts.) ____ Met craftsmanship standards
(1 pt.) ____Some care and craftsmanship
(0 pts.) ____ Lacks neatness
Competency
(3 pts.) ____Met and exceeded use of clay process (forming, molding) in creating their mixed media mask.
(2 pts.) ____ Met use of clay process (forming, molding) in creating their mixed media mask.
(1 pt.) ____Met some use clay process (forming, molding) in creating their mixed media mask.
(0 pts.) ____Met little use clay process (forming, molding) in creating their mixed media mask.
Creativity
(3 pts.) ____Exceptional creativity and design qualities (shapes, lines, and patterns)
(2 pts.) ____ Met creativity and design standards (shapes, lines, and patterns)
(1 pt.) ____ Evidence of some design and creativity (shapes, lines, and patterns)
(0 pts.) ____Copied example(s) or others works
Artists Statement:
Describe and explain what you like about your work?
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________
10-12 points = E
7 9 points = G
4 6 points = S
0 3 points = N
Group Work/ Critiquing/
Open Discussion
By engaging the students to discuss or
problem solve questions regarding the art
lesson in an open forum allows the student to
build on comprehension.
Start with Kindergarten to begin to learn how
to discuss content in an open discussion. An
example not only to ask them what the 3
primary colors are, but to understand that is a
color scheme identified as a group.
Continue critiquing Open
Discussions
Have them match words to the correct
assignment. This can be done through their
Artist Statements: that you provide, or that
they develop and connect on their own based
on prior knowledge.
CONNECTIONS: Have the students compare
similarities of words from one assignment to
the next.
Websites
https://quizlet.com/
Enhancing the 5 Es
http://enhancinged.wgbh.org/research/eeeee.html
Higher level questioning strategies
http://teachertools.londongt.org/?page=questioningTec
hniques
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/new-classroom-
questioning-techniques-todd-finley
Why:
Vocabulary review
Essential Questions that students can respond to during and after
school.
Parent awareness
Journaling
Purpose of journaling
to see growth,
to recognize student critiquing about their own
work,
to see thought that are problem solving,
to share with parents,
Student resource to reflect on
http://www.creative-writing-ideas-and-activities.com/art-journaling-prompts.html
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr144.shtml
Post Rubric (clear expectations)
Student/Teacher evaluation
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbox/tasks.htm
Artist Statement
Always on the Student Rubric I add
Artists Statement:
Describe and explain what you like about your
work?
_______________________________________
_______________________________________
__________________
Interview the student artist
Interview Worksheet
Student Name: _______________________________________________________
Personal Introduction: ___________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________
Share Life History: _____________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________
Explanation of What You Like In Your Work: ________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
Explanation of Your Most Recent Work: ____________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________
Closing Thoughts for Young People: _______________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________
Research and Artist
Research Worksheet
Student Name: ____________________
Artists Full Name: _____________________________________________
Place of Birth: _________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
Childhood Years: ______________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
Adult Years: __________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________
Famous Works: ________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
Style and Content of Work: ______________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
Reference List and Web Sites: ____________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________
Word Search/Easy
Book/Vocabulary Handouts
Easy Book
Vocabulary Review
http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/
Create a word search
Scavenger Hunt
Teachers' Scavenger Hunt
GO TO: www.ajkids.com
Type In: What is the painting style Impressionism?
Click on: Ask
Scroll Down to Impressionism
Click on : Ask
Answer the following questions:
1. What is the painting style Impressionism?
2. List an Artist who paints Impressionistic?
GO TO: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html
Click on: Art and Artists
Click on: Landscapes
Answer the following questions:
3. What was the name of van Goghs two landscapes?
4. What was the name of Monets landscape?
(Option: you can print the landscapes out and color.)
Venn Diagrams
(compare/contrast)
Compare and Contrast the
similarities and differences
from the Photograph and
the Geometric
ArtworkGeometric Artwork
Photograph
Venn Diagram and write
down within the circles
similarities and differences.
The Target
Use technology (clickers,
internet search, Think.com)
Create a 10 question clicker test and the
results of student knowledge will be
generated in a format that will document
learned knowledge and areas of need.
Kagan/Criss Strategies
Group activities
Read and Say
In a small group one student reads aloud a
paragraph and one at a time each student
explains in their words what they learned.
Modify to I Spy and Say
Using a specific artwork provide a question such as I
spy a vertical line. Then each student in the group can
explain through descriptive words what they observed.
Parent/Student Communication
about Assessing
Create A Newsletter/Sticky Notes in agendas
something that will provide communication
about what students are learning.
Highlights from Newsletter
Vocabulary
Internet sites that extent the assignment
Artists names/Artworks
Home extentions
WHY?? WHY?? WHY??
Why Are you Assessing them?
How do you know that they can connect the
content with the work of art they created?
How do your results from the EOY match with
the grades that the student had received
through the year?
Quality is Practiced!
