Evaluation Strategy
Concept Map
Angela McClue
Summer 2009

There are a variety of evaluation tools that I plan of using for this course.  One tool might be to have the students each week come up with a question that the whole class can discuss as sort of a “bell ringer” activity or as something to wrap up the class at the end of the period.  
I’m definitely going to be using “foldable” for this course.  The foldable is something that was taught to all of the teachers during professional development by our schools literacy team.  Their main goal is to have students review and understand key vocabulary words that will be on the OGT.  The art foldable that I came up with is a focus not only on the art work at hand but also the events that happened the year or close to the year the painting was created.  My students could make one or two of those per week and at the end of the quarter, the students could come up with exam questions on their own, of course I would have to review them.  
I think another way to evaluate students would be to have an oral one-on-one exam and or quizzes periodically.  This would be more difficult to orchestrate but I think the students may consider it a little less threatening than the standard paper and pencil exam.  
There would have to be a paper and pencil exam at some point, but I’m just trying to think of some alternatives in order to keep the students engaged.
Another way to evaluate this course would be through journal writing.  I could put up two works of art from different or the same eras and the students could either compare or contrast the two works or both at the same time.  The goal of this is to get to that high level of thinking.  
A project-based approach would be another way to evaluate the students in this class.  The students could be put into groups or partners or work alone and choose an artist to either right a report on or to do a newspaper article on or perhaps put together a presentation for the class and follow it up with a project that they have to create.
I think by using evaluation tools more frequently you will give students more opportunities for success as opposed to giving them two tests or one giant test at the end of the quarter.