Responding to Art

: Art in Social Context

Approach: One to One Interview

Resources: Photographic reproductions of two paintings by New Zealand artists.

Two Paintings has been selected as a link task, so procedural details are not included in this report. The teacher administrator asked a sequence of questions to investigate the student's knowledge, understandings and ideas about each painting in turn, then the two paintings in relation to each other. Prompts were given only when it was considered necessary to seek or encourage clarification from the student.

	There is a very similar distribution of ratings across the 6 point scale for both year 4 and 8 students. Although one sculpture was changed between year 4 and 8, the task procedure was the same.
	The change of paintings between years 4 and 8 needs to be taken into account when considering this information.

Key attributes (1 low - 4 high)

Qualities

mean score

description

identification of images; detail of description; art making information (use of colour, dimensionality, etc.)

2.3

2.4

responsiveness

sense of engagement; curiosity; confidence; feelings, empathy.

2.0

2.2

interpretation

accounting for detail; narrative - tells a story; relevant use of art vocabulary; fluency of ideas; backing opinions with reasons; use of metaphor.

2.1

2.2

Global Rating (1 low - 6 High)

2.9

3.0

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