Assessment in Art Education

In this informative course, you will learn how to apply various tools and assessment strategies in the art classroom in meaningful and scalable ways, mastering the difference between assessment of learning and assessment for learning. You will be empowered to sustainably collect, analyze, visualize, and apply data to advocate for students, resulting in more substantial learning outcomes, as you design more culturally responsive assessments. Throughout this course, you will develop a deep understanding of portfolio assessment at the elementary, middle, and high school levels as well as online. Using current lesson plans, you will create several new, effective assessment strategies for immediate application in your classroom.

For the official course description, see the course syllabus or Graduate Catalog.

Required Materials

No text required for this course.

Additional Materials

Computer with basic audio and video output equipment
Internet access (broadband recommended)
Basic computing skills (see AOEU’s Technology Requirements)
Access to AOEU’s online learning platform, Brightspace, to view course content, submit assignments, and engage in discussion (provided)
Word-processing platform (Microsoft Office, Pages, Google Docs)

Graduate Credits

All courses will now close at 11 PM Central time on the 27th of each month. Graduate Credits 3 Graduate Credits

Price Graduate Credit $1197.00

Timeline

Mon 8 Sun

Sep 6 Weeks Oct 31

Upcoming Course Run Dates

Sep 6 Oct 31

Oct 4 Nov 28

Nov 1 Dec 26

Dec 6 Jan 30

Jan 3 Feb 27

AOEU Course Code

ARE501

Morningside Course Code

EDUC500 AOE001

Course Objectives

Integrate a variety of assessments, including formative and summative assessments, into the art classroom.
Produce rubrics and portfolio assessment tools for authentic assessment in the classroom.
Analyze standards-based instruction to demonstrate evidence of learning.
Defend the value of art education in school curricula through the data visualization of academic progress and outcomes.
Improve student learning and outcomes through sustainable data collection, data implementation, and culturally responsive assessment.

Course Breakdown

Week 1

Rethinking Assessment

Investigate the current state of assessment in the art classroom, then reflect on your current assessment approach.

Week 2

Formative Versus Summative Assessment

Investigate two key tools for authentic assessment in the art classroom: summative assessment and formative assessment.
Design a formative assessment.

Week 3

Integrating Standards-Based Instruction Into the Art Classroom

Take a critical look at standards-based instruction.
Create rubrics grounded in standards-based instruction to measure student growth in academic content standards over time.

Week 4

Composing Artistic Understandings Through Portfolios

Develop a deep understanding of portfolio assessment at the elementary, middle, and high school levels as well as online.
Investigate evidence collections that are not traditional portfolios.
Create a summative assessment to score an evidence collection or develop a portfolio checklist.

Week 5

Sustainable Data Collection in the Art Classroom

Embark on an in-depth investigation of how data impacts the art classroom.
Learn and practice techniques for sustainable data collection.
Create a data collection tool tailored to your teaching practice.

Week 6

Directing Data Visualization and Implementation Techniques to Spotlight Art

Evaluate various techniques for data visualization and select the best ones for use in the art classroom.
Deconstruct data implementation in the art classroom.
Develop a data visualization artifact to share assessment data.

Week 7

Conducting Culturally Responsive Assessment in the Art Classroom

Learn about culturally responsive assessment in the art classroom.
Set advocacy goals in assessment.
Compose a specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound (SMART) goal for assessment in the art classroom.

Week 8

Reflection

Reflect on your assessment journey from the beginning to the end.

Formative Versus Summative Assessment

A sample assignment from Week 3 of the class Assessment in Art Education

1. Research

Choose one learning standard from the National Core Arts Standards you want to assess in your classroom.

2. Discussion

What is your experience with standards-based instruction? How would you apply it in your classroom? If you already do, please describe how they have impacted your measurement of student learning over time.

3. Practical, Hands-On Application

Create a scale to evaluate this standard.

What do past course participants think?

Hundreds of art teachers have taken the course Assessment in Art Education. Here’s what they actually think — without cherry-picking.
(12-month rolling average from all post-course survey respondents – Updated 1/28/2021)

96%

Course content was relevant and current.

92.05%

Instructor was knowledgeable and provided value-added contributions.

98%

 I achieved the goals I set at the beginning of the course.   

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