Assessing student learning within a limited arts-in-education project

With small project-based arts-in-education programs, it is often difficult to assess the impact on student learning. How can we develop our own targeted assessments based on the outcomes that we identified for the project?  Going beyond the broad Learning Standards, through observational data, how can we chart our success?

Thursday 11:00-12:30

Conference Strand: Curriculum and Assessment

Educators: how to chart observational data to measure student learning in an AIE project.

Artists: how to reach into the Arts standards to measure specific arts learning.

Organizational Administrators: how important it is to measure student learning even in the limited arts-integrated program.

Educational Administrators: how important the limited arts-integrated program is to student learning and what it looks like.

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Marty Evans is Director of Arts in Education for The ARTS of the Southern Finger Lakes. She recently retired from the Watkins Glen School District, where she taught visual arts for 24 years and Instructional Support K-12 for the past 6 years.  She was instrumental in arts-in-education programming and developing arts-integrated curricula for the district, which this spring received the New York State Creative Ticket Award, sponsored by the Kennedy Center and the NYS Alliance for Arts Education.