Two groups participated in three weeks of instruction in contour drawing, based upon Nicolaides' The Natural Way to Draw, Scanning Works of Art: A Guide for Teachers, was used with the experimental group to look at reproductions of drawings by well known artists, to see if this form of aesthetic scanning could enhance either, or both, verbal knowledge, as evidenced by performances on the Art Vocabulary test, and/or quality of drawings, as judged by Salome's Criterion Based Scoring of Instructional Effects. In addition, the study included the examination of relationships among six characteristics: the three independant variables; which were standardized academic achievement test scores, performance on the Group Embedded Figures Test; a measure of cognitive style, and art grade, and the three dependant variables derived from the evaluative measurements used for the art performances which were: Art Vocabulary test scores, and judges' scores on the two drawings based upon Salome's Criterion Based Scoring of Instructional Effects. / The data analysis for the first two hypotheses which compared the means of the two groups for significance in the effects of the aesthetic scanning treatment resulted in not rejecting the null hypothesis. The second part of the data analysis involved examining correlations between the six variables. Of the fifteen relationships examined for the two groups combined, ten were found to have significant Pearson Product-Moment Correlations. The Embedded Figures Test correlated highly with five other variables; the Art Vocabulary test, standardized academic achievement tests, art grades, and scores on both the lamp and figure drawings. Correlations for the same fifteen combinations of scores were examined for each group independently. The most notable difference was that in the experimental group there was a high correlation between scores on the Embedded Figures Test and the Art Vocabulary test, while the relationship between these scores in the control alone was not significant. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-12, Section: A, page: 3831. / Major Professor: Charles Dorn. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1989.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_78127 |
| Contributors | Vigilante, Amy Ruth., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 175 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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