AE 3280 - Statistics: Assessing Learning + Teaching

Credits: 3

The course introduces basic statistics principles and applies them to the purposes for and approaches to assessment, both traditional and alternative. Study includes quantitative and qualitative methods for assessing student performance in art and design, as well as course and program effectiveness. Proficiencies are determined by measuring the student’s ability to organize data; plan teaching effectiveness; devise and demonstrate assessment; and evaluate instruments and methodologies. Upon successful completion of this course, students will have learned basic statistical methods for data collection and analysis for the purpose of assessing teaching and learning in K-12 schools. Students will also become familiar with how to assess their own teaching skills and to recognize the importance and methods of assessing student learning in the classroom.

Prerequisites: AE 3220 - Teaching in a Multicultural Environment; must be an Art Education major.

Course Learning Outcomes:

Students will learn K-12 instruction that is aligned with the Colorado Academic Standards; their district’s organized plan of instruction; and the individual needs of their students.
Students will demonstrate mathematics in K-12 Visual Arts and understand how to promote K-12 student development in numbers and operations, algebra, geometry and measurement and data analysis and probability.
Students will plan and practice delivering instruction that draws on results of student assessments, is aligned to academic standards and advances students’ level of content knowledge and skills.
Students will use appropriate methods to assess what each K-12 student has learned, including formal and informal assessments, and use results to plan further instruction.