ABSTRACT

Evaluating Creative Practice discusses:
*the function of evaluation in general
*the role of formal assessment and its relation with informal evaluation
*the role of the audience for the creative product
*the value of making within the subject discipline
*the balance within the subject paid to product and process
*the role of reflection and the place of the students voice.
Examples of practice from subject disciplines English, Art, Music, Drama, Media Studies, Design and Technology, Gallery Education and Digital Arts will enable those involved with primary, secondary, further, higher, gallery and community education to learn from each other and to develop a coherent approach to the range of creative work produced by young people. By focusing on questions of evaluation and containing a range of practical examples the book sets an agenda for creative work by young people in the school curriculum and beyond.

chapter 1|15 pages

Introduction

Evaluating creativity

chapter 2|27 pages

Art education and talk

From modernist silence to postmodern chatter

chapter 5|18 pages

Music as a media art

Evaluation and assessment in the contemporary classroom

chapter 6|22 pages

Measuring the shadow or knowing the bird

Evaluation and assessment of drama in education

chapter 7|25 pages

Making the grade

Evaluating student production in Media Studies

chapter 8|33 pages

Whose art is it anyway?

Art education outside the classroom

chapter 9|29 pages

Making multimedia

Evaluating young people's creative multimedia production

chapter 10|16 pages

From creativity to cultural production

Shared perspectives