Program: Art (BA, BFA)
Degree: Bachelor's
Date: Thu Oct 09, 2014 - 3:30:16 pm
1) Institutional Learning Objectives (ILOs) and Program Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
1. BA-Studio: Demonstrate grasp of fundamental skills and concepts relative to the practice of the visual arts, and basic skills and knowledge of several speci?c art media
(2b. Conduct research)
2. BA-Studio: Demonstrate some creative originality in visual communication and self expression.
(2a. Think critically and creatively, 2b. Conduct research, 3a. Continuous learning and personal growth)
3. BA-Studio: Demonstrate a basic understanding and appreciation of the art-historical contexts which formed our present approach to the visual arts.
(1a. General education, 1b. Specialized study in an academic field, 3b. Respect for people and cultures, in particular Hawaiian culture)
4. BA-Studio: Demonstrate a basic ability to analyze the merits of art works and establish an individual sense of aesthetic judgment and standards applicable to the broad range of art.
(1b. Specialized study in an academic field)
5. BA-Studio: Demonstrate basic abilities in self-presentation and critique.
(2c. Communicate and report, 3a. Continuous learning and personal growth, 3d. Civic participation)
6. BA-Art History: Demonstrate a basic grasp of the process of doing research or curatorial work with original artworks in museum and gallery collections.
(2a. Think critically and creatively, 2b. Conduct research)
7. BA-Art History: Demonstrate the ability to research and construct a basic but original art-historical argument.
(2a. Think critically and creatively, 2b. Conduct research, 3a. Continuous learning and personal growth)
8. BA-Art History: Demonstrate a broad grasp of the history of art within cultural contexts and a more specialized knowledge of certain periods, cultures, and issues
(1a. General education, 1b. Specialized study in an academic field, 3b. Respect for people and cultures, in particular Hawaiian culture)
9. BA-Art History: Demonstrate an understanding of basic art historical and critical issues, methods, and theories, and the ability to use them in written work.
(1b. Specialized study in an academic field)
10. BA-Art History: Demonstrate an ability to write in the basic forms of art-historical research, including the formal analysis, the research report, and the critical or analytic argument.
(2b. Conduct research, 2c. Communicate and report, 3a. Continuous learning and personal growth, 3d. Civic participation)
11. BFA: Demonstrate command of fundamental skills and concepts relative to the practice of the visual arts, and intermediate to advanced skills and knowledge of a particular art medium or media.
(2b. Conduct research)
12. BFA: Demonstrate some development of individual approaches to and philosophies of art as well as the understanding of traditional modes and paradigms.
(2a. Think critically and creatively, 2b. Conduct research, 3a. Continuous learning and personal growth)
13. BFA: Demonstrate an intermediate to advanced understanding and appreciation of the art-historical contexts which formed our present approach to the visual arts.
(1a. General education, 1b. Specialized study in an academic field, 3b. Respect for people and cultures, in particular Hawaiian culture)
14. BFA: Demonstrate an intermediate to advanced ability to analyze the merits of art works and establish an individual sense of aesthetic judgment and standards applicable to the broad range of art.
(1b. Specialized study in an academic field)
15. BFA: Demonstrate mastery of the professional practices of artists, especially portfolio presentation, exhibition, and the writing of artist's statements; participate in and help organize BFA exhibition.
(2c. Communicate and report, 3a. Continuous learning and personal growth, 3d. Civic participation)
2) Your program's SLOs are published as follows. Please update as needed.
Department Website URL: http://www.hawaii.edu/art/downloads/2008assess_matrix-1.pdf
Student Handbook. URL, if available online: Information Sheet, Flyer, or Brochure URL, if available online: UHM Catalog. Page Number: Course Syllabi. URL, if available online: NA Other: Other: 3) Select one option:
- File (03/16/2020)
4) For your program, the percentage of courses that have course SLOs explicitly stated on the syllabus, a website, or other publicly available document is as follows. Please update as needed.
0% 1-50% 51-80%
81-99% 100%5) Did your program engage in any program assessment activities between June 1, 2013 and September 30, 2014? (e.g., establishing/revising outcomes, aligning the curriculum to outcomes, collecting evidence, interpreting evidence, using results, revising the assessment plan, creating surveys or tests, etc.)
Yes No (skip to question 14)6) For the period between June 1, 2013 and September 30, 2014: State the assessment question(s) and/or assessment goals. Include the SLOs that were targeted, if applicable.
Our department’s protocol for assessment evaluates the work of graduating students in each of our five degree programs. In each annual round of assessment, we evaluate the work of students in a single degree program, based on the five program SLOs (per degree program) listed earlier in this report. This year’s assessment was intended to target the BA program in studio art. The program wanted to find out what proportion of our graduating BA students in studio art are meeting or exceeding these five goals at the point of graduation.
7) State the type(s) of evidence gathered to answer the assessment question and/or meet the assessment goals that were given in Question #6.
Each year since 2010, all graduating BA students in studio art were required to submit a portfolio consisting of a CV, artist's statement, 10-12 images of recent work, an image inventory, and one course paper written for an art or art history course.
8) State how many persons submitted evidence that was evaluated. If applicable, please include the sampling technique used.
Between 35 and 60 BA portfolios are submitted each year, of which 8-10 are usually art history BAs. The remaining 25-52 studio art BA portfolios are collected, and the department now holds apparently 250 portfolios from studio art BA graduates. The plan is to randomly sample a selection of portfolios from each of the five years under review, so that the group of portfolios under assessment covers all five years this system has been in place.
9) Who interpreted or analyzed the evidence that was collected? (Check all that apply.)
Course instructor(s) Faculty committee Ad hoc faculty group Department chairperson Persons or organization outside the university Faculty advisor Advisors (in student support services) Students (graduate or undergraduate) Dean/Director Other: 10) How did they evaluate, analyze, or interpret the evidence? (Check all that apply.)
Used a rubric or scoring guide Scored exams/tests/quizzes Used professional judgment (no rubric or scoring guide used) Compiled survey results Used qualitative methods on interview, focus group, open-ended response data External organization/person analyzed data (e.g., external organization administered and scored the nursing licensing exam) Other: 11) For the assessment question(s) and/or assessment goal(s) stated in Question #6:
Summarize the actual results.
Our assessment plan states that we should assess BA portfolios in studio art this round, and since these are mostly collected at the point of graduation (i.e. usually in the spring), the assessment takes place the following fall. At the moment we are facing a logistical problem in that the portfolios are all on separate CDs, making it impractical to assess them one at a time. We are currently working with ITS to obtain a secure, FERPA-compliant server partition to which we can upload all the graduation portfolios, making tracking, record-keeping, and actual assessment more practical. For these reasons, we are delaying the actual evaluation of BA portfolios in studio art until the portfolios are more easily available.
12) State how the program used the results or plans to use the results. Please be specific.
Once the results are available, we intend to use them to test our curriculum's success, especially in light of recent changes we've made since last program review. The archived portfolios will also serve as a record of work produced in the department.
13) Beyond the results, were there additional conclusions or discoveries?
This can include insights about assessment procedures, teaching and learning, program aspects and so on.
We are learning a lot about logistics here.