Skip to content

Assessment in Arts Education

Best in textbook rentals since 2012!

ISBN-10: 0325007950

ISBN-13: 9780325007953

Edition: 2006

Authors: Philip Taylor, Joe Kincheloe

List price: $39.55
Blue ribbon 30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!
what's this?
Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:
Carrot Coin icon
XP icon
You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

With the current emphases on standards and evidence-based learning, its time to revisit the question of whether standards liberate or stifle excellence in arts education. Assessment in Arts Education examines the pressing issues that educators everywhere and at all levels face as they make determinations about progress and achievement in the arts. Assessment in Arts Education critiques the application of standards in arts education and the extent to which benchmarks and attainment levels are practically and educationally sensible. It opens up an interdisciplinary discussion on arts-education assessment and provides helpful advice for thinking about assessment and evaluation. Leaders in…    
Customers also bought

Book details

List price: $39.55
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 8/29/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English

Phillip D. Taylor holds degrees from Kent State University and The University of Akron. Escaping Minimum Wage is his second book. His first, published in 2013, is: The First Step before a Thousand: Career Planning 2014-2015. Support for both titles may be found at ProLineCareers.com. He lives in Akron, Ohio.

Foreword
Prologue and Acknowledgment
Introduction: Assessment in Arts Education
Dance Education
Evolving Modes of Assessing Dance: In Search of Transformative Dance Assessment
Unlocking Dance and Assessment for Better Learning
Music Education
Music Education and Assessment: Issues and Suggestions
An Assessment of Assessment in Music
Theatre Education
Assessment Through Drama
Returning the Aesthetic to the Theatre/Drama Classroom
Visual Arts Education
Embodying Visual Arts Assessment Through Touch: Imag(e)ining a Relational Arts Curriculum
Finding Balance and Embodiment in Arts Assessment with "No Child Left Behind"
Notes on Contributors