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NAEP Arts: Why it matters

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), is a body funded by the Federal Government to provide information to the Congress and the Executive Branch on what American children know and can do in a variety of specific subject areas. NAEP develops specific tests. Small, statistically significant samples of students are selected to take the test. These samples are then used to make generalizations about what all American children can do.

In 1997, NAEP created a visual arts examination. The tests are complex because students construct an art response to specific questions. You can learn more about the 1997 NAEP Arts and the follow-up 2008 NAEP Arts at: http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/arts/

The findings of this report were controversial. The report contended that there was no evidence that art teachers had any impact on what children knew or could do. After the 1997 NAEP Arts results were released and reported to Congress, a team of NAEA Higher Education professors--including new NAEA President Robert Sabol-- performed a secondary analysis of the data. This team challenged the original NAEP findings and found that with sophisticated analysis of the data, as well as accounting for multiple factors affecting performance, one could see that art teachers do matter. NAEP formally acknowledged the merit of this variant interpretation and promised that the insights from this report would be incorporated into the administration and analysis of the 2008 NAEP Arts test.

The 2008 NAEP Arts result should be publicly available in the summer of 2009. Robert Sabol, Purdue University, IN along with this original team of Read Diket, William Carey MS, David Burton, Virginia Commonwealth University, VA will apply to again perform a secondary analysis of the 2008 NAEP data.

NAEP remains the most important educational assessment tool. NAEP results directly effect Congressional educational legislation. Thus the results and interpretations of the 2008 NAEP Arts can have impact for all art teachers in Georgia.

Richard Siegesmund, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Art Education
University of Georgia
Lamar Dodd School of Art
270 River Road
Athens, GA 30602-4102
rsieg@uga.edu
706-542-1647

Kudos!

Congratulations to Diana Grergory, Assistant Professor of Art Education, Kennesaw State who won the 2009 National Art Education Association, Southeastern Higher Education, Educator of Year Award.

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Kudos again!

Kennesaw State reinstates All-State Art Symposium.

Kennesaw State, working in partnership with GAEA, has provided the means to reinstate the All-State Art Symposium, a celebration of the visual arts in Georgia's high schools.