Assessment Documents at CVA

Assessment Guidelines

CVA Learning Goals

Standard Assessment Form

Sample Assessment

(all documents in .pdf format)

Internet Resources

Text Resources

Arizona Arts Education assessment website - General guidelines and tools.

http://www.arizonaarts.org/arts_education/arts_education/resources_assessment.htm

Black, Paul and Dylan William.  "Inside the Black Box:  Raising Standards through Classroom Assessment."  Phi Delta Kappa Online Magazine, October 1998.  [click here for .pdf file]

General Assessment materials

Allen, M.  Outcomes Assessment Handbook. California State University Institute for Teaching and Learning, 2002.

Angelo, Thomas and Patricia Cross.  Classroom Assessment Techniques:  A Handbook for College Teachers.  San Francisco:  Jossey-Bass, 1993.

 Gives 50+ examples of classroom assessment exercises; most applicable in liberal arts setting.

Focus is on measuring discrete learning tasks; does not emphasize pre-testing.

Treats assessment process as bounded by classroom walls; results not shared outside the individual classroom.

Walvoord, Barbara E.  Assessment Clear and Simple: A Practical Guide for Institutions, Departments, and General Education. San Francisco:  Jossey Bass, 2004.

 Overview of assessment process:

Maki, Peggy.  Assessing for Learning:  Building a Sustainable Commitment Across the Institution.  Sterling, VA:  Stylus Publishing, 2004.

 Best current source on overview of assessment at all level.  Limited on concrete examples of assessment at the classroom level.

Arts Education assessment

 Stokrocki, Mary.  “Reconsidering Everyday Assessment in the Art Classroom:  Ceramics and Science.”  Arts Education Policy Review 107.1 (2005): 15-21.  [click here for .pdf file].  Critical theory and assessment.

 Pistone, Nancy.  Envisioning Arts Assessment:  A Process Guide for Assessing Arts Education in School Districts and States.  Arts Education Partnership and Council of Chief State School Offices, 2002.  [click here for .pdf file]