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Research on Large Scale Research on Large Scale Arts AssessmentsArts Assessments

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• Review of the status of large-scale arts assessments and current practice in arts assessment for K-12 accountability

• Discussion on approaches of five states to standard based assessments

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Results of Review of Washington’s Performance Based Assessments

• Findings:– Require very little arts knowledge to make qualitative

judgments– Scoring Guides thorough in defining art terms and

what student work should look or sound like– The scoring guide includes rubrics that align with

standards based criteria– Reliability can be maintained because criteria are

simply counted– Scoring guide includes

• Anchor set-scored student sample• Practice set-teachers use to practice scoring

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Purpose

• Examine issues and promising practices in K-12 district wide systems for assessing student performance in arts education programs

• Builds on findings of An Unfinished Canvas which applied three criteria for balance in large scale assessment programs:– Comprehensiveness, coherence and continuity

• Added two criteria– Feasibility and visibility

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Findings

• Through review of documents and interviews categorized districts into three groups based on source of the assessment tasks– Adoption Model: districts which adopted state

developed assessments– Development Model: districts which have developed

their own common set of assessment tasks– Benchmark Model: districts which have developed

common benchmarks and scoring rubrics, but allow schools and teachers to develop their own assessment tasks

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• All districts in Washington were found to be using the Adoption Model

• No other state has mandated the use of a common set of arts assessments in all districts

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Findings of Washington Districts

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Components of the Washington State Arts Program

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Program Structure• Since 2001 based on Essential Academic Learning

Requirements (EALRs)

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Grade 8 EALR

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Draft Grade Level Expectations

• Began in 2006 with a team of 36 art educators and leaders

• Provide clarity at each grade level for each arts discipline: dancing, music, theater and visual arts

• The Evidence of Learning provides a list of methods students can use to demonstrate what they have learned

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Example of Grade Level Expectations based on Essential Academic Learning Requirements

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http://www.k12.wa.us/Arts/Standards/pubdocs/GLEdrafts/MusicStandards2009.pdfhttp://www.k12.wa.us/Arts/Standards/pubdocs/GLEdrafts/Visual%20ArtsStandards2009.pdf

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Classroom Based Performance Assessments

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http://www.k12.wa.us/Arts/CBPAs/Music/Grade8-RollerCoasterFanatic.doc

http://www.k12.wa.us/Arts/CBPAs/Music/Grade88%20All-StateAllStars.doc

http://www.k12.wa.us/Arts/CBPAs/Music/Grade8BubbleGumJingle.doc

http://www.k12.wa.us/Arts/CBPAs/Music/Grade8and10-FestivalTimeEnsemble.DOC

http://www.k12.wa.us/Arts/CBPAs/Music/Grade8and10-FestivalTimeSolo.doc

http://www.k12.wa.us/Arts/CBPAs/Music/Grade8and10-PitOrchestraAudition.doc

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2008-2009 Use of Classroom Based Assessments in School Districts

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OSPI Arts Program Web sites:• Arts Teaching and Learning: http://www.k12.wa.us/Arts/default.aspx

• Arts Assessment: Memorandum 007-10 (Word) on CBPAs for the Arts-State Reporting Process

• Arts Assessment: http://www.k12.wa.us/Arts/CBPAs/default.aspx– New/Revised Arts Assessments: http://www.k12.wa.us/Arts/CBPAs/default.aspx– 2003-2006 Arts Assessments-The 2003-2006 CBPAs are also available for download.– Joint Assessment Web site for Arts, Social Studies and Health and Fitness:

http://www.k12.wa.us/assessment/CBAOverview.aspx– The Journey in Progress (New Horizons)

How do you assess the arts? Classroom-Based Performance Assessments are providing an avenue to answer the question of how to assess the arts in Washington state, by measuring what we want all students to know and be able to do in dance, music, theatre, and visual arts. (New Horizons for Learning, September 2005)

• Arts Learning Standards: http://www.k12.wa.us/Arts/Standards/default.aspx

• Superintendent’s High School Art Show: http://www.k12.wa.us/Arts/ArtShow/default.aspx

• Arts Video: Learning Through the Arts (Flash) This one-minute audio-visual presentation demonstrates the integration of the Arts with “sophisticated curriculum.”

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For more information about the Arts Program in Washington, please contact:

Annrene.joseph@k12.wa.us

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