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Re: Kids Should NOT Fail Art......

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From: K A (arizkma_at_TeacherArtExchange)
Date: Sun Jan 30 2005 - 19:24:56 PST

If this is graded on a standards based report card, there should be no A's per se, but something like Meets, Progressing or Approaches, Unsatisfactory or Exceeds. The most complete standards based report card that I have used had a standards based grade like that, as well as an effort grade for each subject. Then social skills/behaviors were in a third section of the report card. I really do believe that these are three separate, yet valid, aspects of assessment. In my opinion, the first student in the example below gets a progressing grade based on the standards and a meets grade on the effort. The second student gets a meets on the standards and a progressing on the effort.

I support standards based report cards, because it is (if used in the spirit in which it was created) honest and straightforward. It is not subjective, and it bluntly communicates what students have mastered, etc. However, it is necessary that students, staff and families understand what the grades mean and that they participate in conferences to clarify any misunderstandings, because it is different than the traditional letter grading system.
 
~ Kathleen
 
P.S. On the topic of failing an art class as a whole, I believe that students can receive unsatisfactory grades on certain aspects of a project's rubric, but that in order to receive unsatisfactory marks on every part of a rubric on every assignment, that's a very extreme situation. (I was going to say that it's not possible, but who knows . . . if that was happening, I believe the teacher would step in long before that . . . )

Occasm@aol.com wrote:

   What do we think? On grading the end product.....
   You have a student who says he's tried his hardest (as noted on his self-assessment rubric), but still creates a poorly crafted and designed piece. He was shown and explained the assignment's objectives and demos were done both personally and as a group.
   Another student produces a better designed and crafted piece, but it still doesn't represent the super high-end work that is possible from maybe a few in class.
   Do both students get A's?

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."- Pablo Picasso

                
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