The Road to Better Learning: Portfolios, Not Tests |
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Bob Lazuka and Wendy Free will introduce the College Board’s Advanced Placement Studio Art Portfolio for high school students, describing portfolio components, work processes, and assessment procedures. The Concentration section of the portfolio requires that students create a body of 12 related works describing an in-depth exploration of a particular artistic concern of their choice. Students select an idea to explore and choose media, techniques, styles, compositional presentations, and content to demonstrate their processes of investigation. The concentration body of work illustrates students' artistic growth and discovery over time through a number of conceptually related works. This section of the portfolio includes a written commentary originally drafted when students begin their work and used to provide focus and direction to art making. The Concentration statement evolves with students' work, and the final version is a summary of their artistic and intellectual progression. Wendy and Bob will share digital images of student artwork and discuss how aspects of developing a body of work – student choice of study, reflection, self-critique, interdisciplinary study, flexibility, creativity, problem-solving – can be applied as a model toward the concept of 'propagating more creative and meaningful instruction throughout the curriculum'. Participants will be provided with a concrete example of how the AP Studio Art program serves as a teaching and learning model that incorporates visual and written communication and expression as well as interdisciplinary research, synthesis of ideas, and ongoing student reflection. You will learn how the philosophy and approach of the portfolio's Concentration section may be applied to enhancing learning and student success. |
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Dr. Wendy Free is Director of Curriculum and Content Development for Advanced Placement (AP) arts programs at The College Board. She earned her PhD in art education, researching how viewing and creating illustrations can influence reading comprehension. Wendy taught studio art for 20 years, working with elementary through post-secondary students, and is a National Board Certified Teacher. She chaired the Gainesville, Florida Art in Public Places Trust from 2004–2008. Wendy has collaborated with the College Board’s National Task Force on the Arts in Education since 2008. |
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| Professor Robert Lazuka has been a School of Art faculty member at Ohio University since 1984, where he served as Director from 2001-06. Professor Lazuka's fine art prints [see World Printmakers] have been exhibited throughout the United State, Europe, and China, and were selected for inclusion in the permanent collections of The Smithsonian National Museum of Art; Washington, D.C.; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum in Lagrange, GA; and The Baseball Hall of Fame Museum in Cooperstown, NY, among many others. Robert has been involved with the College Board in various capacities since 1988. During his involvement with the Advanced Placement Program he served as Chief Faculty Consultant in Studio Art from 1996-2000, and as Chair of the Development Committee from 2000 to 2005. Robert was appointed by the College Board to the National Task Force on the Arts in Education in 2007, and now serves as Co-Chair of the Arts Academic Advisory Committee. |
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