Okay, missed this when it first came around. How I grade. Well
frankly I've gone to a very simple formula that uses letter grades
as points to come up with an average (since in my district we have
to give kids percentages rather than a letter grade on their report
cards). For me, even if you are an average artist you can get out
of the class with nothing lower than 70%, which is very average to
me.
What I look for, first is amount of effort put into any given piece.
How much time do you actually spend on your work and are you using
class time wisely or are you goofing around and deciding to put crap
together at the last minute just to hand something in. If its the
second part you've prety much lost 5 points in my book. Art is
process that takes time to do it right.
How neat are you. There's nothing worst than seeing sloppy work,and
again more often than not, that's tied into the time issue, and how
much you're taking to make sure you're also neat about what you're
doing. Being neat shows me you have some pride in the work you do.
How close do you pay attention to details. If something is supposed
to have a straight line, did you draw a straight line (Especially
when using a ruler, and I got news for you folks, you'd be suprised
at just how many highschool kids do not know how to properly use a
ruler to measure, I know I was). If we're painting, does green look
like green or violet like violet (again, the number of kids who
didn't know how to make the secondary colors, green, violet, and
orange and then didn't know how to make a tint (add white) or shade
(add black) with them blew me away my first year).
How good at you at following instructions. If I tell you to draw a
still life, doing what you see, and it has 5 objects in it, but you
only draw 2 and hand it in, then you are not following directions.
Somethings people should be able to do on their own. If I as a
teacher, have to constantly be lending assistance to the point where
I'm doing majority of the work, you're losing points for all I have
to do, since it acutally is your work.
Technical skills. Does what you drew look like what it's supposed
to? How close does it look like what it's supposed to represent.
Some kids have more skills than others technically. But, once I get
beyond that, how much improvement are you showing in your base
skills. Are you actively trying to push yourself to improve and go
beyond the level you currently are at.
Some kids will always just be average artists, but if they are
really trying they get either the higher Cs or mid range Bs for the
effort.
I fail a lot of kids more so do to the fact they are just too lazy
to do the work that's assigned than how well they actually draw.
That's not really the imporant thing to me, its more about the
process of self learning and adapting I want to see. Many don't and
thus fail what should be the easiest class on their schedule.
Idiots.
Tamar
--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, xan tay <xansky2002_at_y...>
wrote:
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>
> all the art classes I've had, we've always had to grade are
self's. I think that I could find one of the grading slips if you
want to see. O yeah, while I'm thinking of it what ever happened to
that 3D model of Des. I just finished a 3ds max class and with newly
acquired understanding of the program I'd like to see those pics
again
>
Xander Taylor
>
>
> How the hell do you /test/ an art class? I never could figure
that out.
>
> If art is a form of self-expression, how do you grade someone's
self-expression?
> "This is you're representation of inner desire, but I really think
it would have been better if you had expressed yourself using
expressionalism instead of abstract."
> Uh, ok.
>
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Received on Mon Jun 07 2004 - 21:53:38 CDT