Evaluation and Assessment

Video Assessment


Survey
3-2-1 Reflection Summary - this is used at the end of an assignment to allow students to reflect on their learning. They will also analyze their own project to determine what they like about their work and what they might to do differently next time.

Rubric
Self Portrait Rubric

Use in the Classroom
These assessments are based on a self-portrait project. The video clip focuses on the elements of art -- specifically the line element. It uses self portraits as a way to showcase the importance of line in creating a portrait. It is part of a seven-video series highlighting each of the elements of art and students will view them all throughout the course of the year. My students complete a different style of self portrait every year in elementary school so when they graduate they can see how they have grown both technically and stylistically.

Students will be able to:

• Identify the different kinds of line
• Analyze other works of art (especially self portraits) for line usage 
• Analyze what the artist is trying to communicate through the use of line in his or her self portrait
• Create his or her own self portrait focusing on the elements of art that they have studied thus far, but specifically the line element. 

Art typically involves project based learning. It involves viewing art, learning about art history and related artists, analyzing aesthetics, and making art. The act of making art is a cumulative process that incorporates art, math, science, history, as well as personal history, personal style, and personal aesthetics. It takes all of the students prior knowledge, especially the lesson at hand, and presents the opportunity to showcase learning in a visual format. Sometimes that visual format can include words (in the art and/or in the artists statement) as well as other elements such as technology and time. 

Student success relies on his or her ability to combine all of the related information and create a project based on this information. In this case, the student will create a self portrait. Before doing the project, s/he will have looked at the video on line, looked at other artists and their self portraits (e.g., Rembrandt, VanGogh, and Picasso), analyzed their artistic styles, and then would go ahead and sketch ideas for his or her own self portrait before beginning the final piece. The final piece would combine the background information from the unit as well as the information on line from the video. 

Application

Editing is a factor in assessment. It's important to have a clear idea of the goals of the unit before you can create a formative and summative assessment. Art isn't necessarily a linear process, so it's important to keep tangents to a minimum in order to keep the students on track and to avoid confusion. This organization carries over to the assessments where it's important to edit the assessments well and to use clear and consistent language choices. 

Reflection

My students complete a 3-2-1 reflection after every assignment, however, I never thought about doing it with Google Forms. It would be so much easier to track these reflections if they were online and would eliminate the clutter of paperwork. It would also make sharing results much easier with administration and other art teachers in district. In terms of project based learning, this was kind of a given for me considering the content of my class. As art teachers, most of our learning leads up to a project based assignment to bring together the concepts within the unit and cement them in the student's learning.