Author: Day, Michael

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Media Type: Periodical (article)

Summary:

Abstract:

The one large-scale standardized testing program that addresses the arts is the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) which tested students in music, theatre, dance and the visual arts in 1997. Release of the 1997 NAEP arts report, scheduled for November 1998, is expected to have a significant impact on the field of arts education. For a brief period after release of this report, the news media as well as local, state and national educational policymakers will focus on the arts in education.

Will release of this report be a positive occasion for arts education? Will this professional field gain stature and support as a result of the 1997 NAEP arts report? The answers to those questions will depend to a large extent upon the members of the professional associations: the American Alliance for Theatre and Education, the Music Educators National Conference, the National Arts Education Association, the National Dance Association, and our colleagues and friends.

Will arts educators be prepared to interpret the NAEP report? What do we need to do to become prepared? How can we shape this event in support of our mission to provide substantative arts education for all children and young people in America?
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CONTENTS
What is NAEP?
What are the NAEP tests?
How are NAEP test results reported?
Why is NAEP important to arts educators?
What will the NAEP results indicate?
How shall arts educators interpret the NAEP results?
What about the next NAEP arts assessment?
What can arts educators do to prepare for the 1997 NAEP arts report?
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Categories: Arts Education