This study measured effectual differences in visual awareness, cognitive abilities, art knowledge, and art attitudes between an experimental group taught utilizing only photographic imagery, related historical and biographical material, studio production, and critical activities as compared to a control group similarly taught utilizing only the traditional art media of drawing, painting, ceramics, and sculpture using the same instructional strategies. / Two classes of randomly selected ninth through twelfth grade beginning general art students participated in the study. The sample of students selected for the study had never received art instruction at the high school level. The experimental group and the control group met daily, with the duration of each class session being fifty-five minutes. The treatment period was 32.4 weeks, made up of 162 school calendar days. The researcher of the study was the art teacher for each of the groups. / Administration of the pretests and the posttests was performed during the first six sessions and the last seven sessions of the experiment. Both groups were administered identical tests including a cognitive abilities test, an art knowledge test, an art attitudinal inventory, and a hand-written critical analysis of a selected work of art. Between the pretest and posttest sessions, 16 sets of content-related lessons were taught to each group. / The statistical comparison of the data collected from the pretests and the posttest mean scores of both groups included t-tests for independent and related samples, Levine's Test for Equality of Variance (f and p), t-value, degrees of freedom, 2-tailed significance, and 95% Confidence Interval for difference which resulting in a failure to reject four null hypotheses. The results indicate there is not a statistically significant difference in a ninth through twelfth grade beginning general art students visual awareness, cognitive abilities, art knowledge, or art attitudes whether taught utilizing photography or traditional Media. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-10, Section: A, page: 3821. / Major Professor: Charles M. Dorn. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1995.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77564 |
| Contributors | Bunch, Larry Wayne., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 188 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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