Journal #11#FormativeAssesmentsVs.SummativeAssesments Lately in my education classes we have been talking a lot about assessments in the classroom. This has been a point for me this past week where ive found myself reflecting on the idea of assessments in my own art classroom, where i've seen assessments in the art classroom as a student observer and as a past art student in high school. Now I think that I might be an abnormal case of knowing a lot more about the assessments that I was doing in the art room during my high school years, as I was very active in the art room as a teaching assistant. From my recollection of that time, and doing assessments it was very few and far between we would have an actual assessment rather than our final art piece or whatever class I was helping out in. Typically it wasn't seen to have any quizzes or tests in my drawing, painting, and AP art studio. Besides the final art pieces counting as a summative grade that was about all that was being graded typically. Other then the final artwork counting as a summative grade, most things in the classes where formative grades, my teacher would hand out a small reflection mid-way through a project to just gather info on how the students were feeling and to get some points into the grade book. Other formative things would be mid-way sketchbook grades, movie worksheets when we had subs, and other smaller activities students would do of fill out. But again, these weren't common as we had a lot of choice art projects and we could work for long periods of time on projects.
From now viewing the formative assessments in the middle and high school, I didn't see much formative assessments besides the end of project grades, a majority of those grades where the summative. In the high school though, ive seen more formative and summative grades being taken from the students, now it is an art history and studio class combined so it's easier to give those short unit tests, with the final unit project and count it as a summative assessment. From the point I am at right now and viewing into my past regarding the past assessments ive taken in the art class, I definitely feel that having it more relaxed in the art room that I grew up with in high school is the way to go, students aren't as scared to expand their work as the grade isn't stressed upon them at the beginning of the project or lesson, like say it is in math, english and history classes where your taking unit tests every other week. In my art regarding this topic I think one good way of showing this idea or way of thinking I have is to push the limits of creating artwork, exploring new materials and spending more time on an art piece without the stress of having it be graded for a big portion of my grade. This could be an exploration of materials, clay, fabric, drawing mediums, and painting. Looking at ways of creating the same subject matter but exploring those materials in an amount of time typical for working on projects in a high school environment.
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