Measurement and Assessment in Visual Art Education

Abstract

Each art education program, it has been needed measurement and assessment to be able to realize whether the child reaches the program's objectives or not. Assessment stage is an important process which contributes to a child's mental, affective and social development. Because, intellectual dimension of the art activity activates during the assessment and child can develop his thinking and practicing techniques a little more each time. There are various techniques to be able to assess artistic learning of the student. Nevertheless, in each assessment technique assess different sizes of artistic learning. To be able to choose appropriate techniques, teacher must know the difference among them. In this research, specialty, content, application and evaluation of alternative assessment techniques have been evaluated. In this way it has been thought that this article would be able to provide a new perspective to the art educators about determining real learning ways and shortcoming.