{"data":{"ID":307,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1381944807,"CreatorID":1149,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"But how do we know? Assessing the arts and other subjective areas","Handle":"But_how_do_we_know-Assessing_the_arts_and_other_subjective_areas","ShortDescription":"The arts engage students in deep, inquiry driven, project-based learning experiences, but are often hard to capture and assess. If the trend is, \u201cWhat is measurable matters,\u201d how do we make our case for difficult to measure \u201csubjective\u201d areas? What can we learn from arts assessments about interpreting students\u2019 learning?","Description":"We will have a conversation about assessment in the arts but in the context of a broader conversation about how we can learn about our students\u2019 learning in subject areas that may be more difficult to assess, areas often described as subjective. The arts engage students in deep, inquiry driven, project-based learning experiences. But it is often hard to capture and hard to assess what students know and are able to do in the arts, and it is even harder to articulate. If the trend is, \u201cWhat is measurable is what matters,\u201d how do we make our case for the arts and other difficult to measure subject areas? How do we know and articulate what our students are learning in the arts? How do we move beyond, \u201cIt was good,\u201d and assess what students know and are able to do in the arts and other subjective areas? What can we learn from arts assessments about assessment methods overall? How might arts assessments give way to other alternative ways of understanding student learning?","Link":["https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/cobaltstandards\/home\/discussion"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"In this conversation we will start by doing an activity to explore the complexities of assessment. Then we will actually engage in a sampling of an arts assessment that is used to measure student ability in the arts.  These experiences with assessing the difficult to assess will lead to a conversation about methods for investigating student learning in these areas. We will explore questions like, \u201cWhat worked?\u201d \u201cWhat didn't work?\u201d \u201cWhat works for you?\u201d \u201cWhy does it work?\u201d and, most importantly, \u201cNow what?\u201d Join in here: https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/cobaltstandards\/home\/discussion","Presenter":["Aliza Greenberg","Otoniel Lopez"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Metropolitan Opera Guild","Metis Associates"],"PresenterEmail":["alizagreenberg@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":27,"ScheduleLocationID":11,"SubmitterID":1149,"AdditionalComments":"I am very interested in bridging conversations in the arts in education world with the larger education conversations. Assessment is a notoriously difficult topic for both and I think a really rich conversation can be had. While my affiliation is with the Metropolitan Opera Guild where I am working on a USDOE opera learning program with elementary schools, I have worked in arts education and explored arts assessment with all different schools, primarily high school populations. I think this conversation could be a really rich discussion of alternative assessment and a way to share practice in that area.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3}}