ABSTRACT
Education in the arts is concerned with personal awareness and imagination and with our cultural tradition. The arts in school education are also concerned with these. There is however a complicating factor. While the school teacher is in a position of responsibility, the means of evaluating pupils are not precisely established. It is therefore necessary that the teacher recognize the need to take responsibility. These judgements provide the focus for discussion about the purpose and nature of assessment in education in the arts. Until people have perish the thought a method of calibrating emotion and feeling and beauty, they will not have an objective scale against which to measure the work of people's pupils. Assessment arrangements, however, for examinations in arts subjects rely to a great extent on the identification of performance levels in the two broad fields of critical activity and expressive activity or performance.
