This report presents information on the status of arts education in South Dakota schools. Central to the report are the findings of a statewide survey of school districts that was conducted as part of a long-term project to advance the arts in South Dakota schools. Findings are reported in a number of areas, including budgets, staffing, course…

This report contains the results of a 1978 study of arts programs conducted through the public and private schools community organizations and art institutions that provide art education for New York City public school children. The process of "arts in education" is defined as "any person or persons imparting knowledge through a…

Suggests forms and procedures art teachers can use to monitor the safety of the art classroom and teaching ideas for promoting safety awareness in students. (SJL)

This report describes a program for improving attitudes of students and parents toward the visual arts in a highly mobile, heterogeneous, suburban community outside of Chicago, Illinois. The problem examined is an historic inability of the school district to establish a permanent art education program, evidenced by the numerous times that art has…

This manual presents an instrument designed for visual arts education research and as a screening and identification test for use in gifted/talented education for artistically talented students. The test consists of four items or tasks that call for a demonstration of different abilities and skills. Each completed drawing is assessed and assigned…

This study examines the attitudes individuals have towards the arts and what role the arts play in U.S. life. A survey was designed specifically to examine issues of funding of the arts by government, the role of arts in the education of children, and what effect the current economic recession has had on participation in and attendance at arts…

This module is an individualized, self-contained instructional booklet designed to teach the first-year architectural student how to use the "Art Index." The instruction covers such aspects as subject headings, subheadings, see and see-also references, abbreviations, elements of a citation, and finding both subject citations and specific…

This research project seeks to implement journaling as a means of improving oral communication in the classroom. The student population will consist of an elementary reading class, a junior high art class, and a high school math class. The probable cause literature gathered revealed a lack oral communication occurs in the classroom during…

The Attitude toward Arts Education Scale (ATAES) was developed to assess attitude change in elementary school teachers resulting from a K-6 arts education program. This paper describes the instrument's construction and its reliability and validity properties. A copy of the ATAES is appended. (Author/SJL)

The focus on academic performance testing in elementary schools has caused a decrease in student experience in the arts. Visual arts (drawing, painting, sculpture, and collage) have been minimized in elementary schools. Without exposure to the special avenues of cognitive development and personal expression nurtured by visual arts, students are…

An art course was adapted from the Manitoba curriculum for grade 9 and delivered via teleconferencing to three small, geographically isolated schools in Birdtail River School Division, Manitoba. Participants included 1 adult planning to study art at a community college and 38 students in grades 8-10 at a German-speaking Hutterian K-10 school, a…

This report describes the development of a project designed to enable high risk high school students to acquire the skills necessary to create computer art. The project was based on a perceived need for the development of a curriculum in computer graphics that would motivate high risk students to acquire skills that could lead to a long term…

The document presents multiple-choice exercises designed by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to measure the ability of students (ages 9 through 17) to recognize and describe various works of art. The objective is to provide classroom teachers easy access to released and tested art assessment materials. For each exercise,…

This research examined the effects of teaching metacognitive strategies on performance in a self-directed learning situation. All participants, 60 university students enrolled in a beginning photography course for non-art majors, were subject to the same conditions. The treatment was embedded instruction and practice in reflection, planning, and…

A project identified students gifted and talented in the arts to participate in a Roanoke (Virginia) County Schools program to develop welding, carpentry, masonry, and metal working skills essential in the production of heroic scale three-dimensional art forms. A steering committee identified nine gifted students from four area high schools. The…