The purpose of this study was to determine if commercially produced art and aesthetic education packages are quality products and if art and aesthetic education packages meet selected goals for art education. This study was limited to packages developed for preschool, kindergarten, and elementary children.To initiate the study, various avenues were explored in order to discover sources of commercially produced art and aesthetic education packages. A list of 72 publishers and suppliers of art and aesthetic education packages was compiled. From this list, a sample of 14 packages was selected.The first portion of the study pertained to the individual analysis of each package. To assess the packages comprising the sample, "An Instrument for the Assessment of Instructional Materials," developed by Maurice Eash (1972) was selected as the evaluation instrument. This instrument is divided into five sections: (a) objectives, (b) organization of material, (c) methodology, (d) evaluation, and (e) overall assessment.The second portion of the study pertained to the relationship of the package to the goals for art education. Various art educators have listed goals for art education; moreover, the goals listed by the National Art Education Commission on Art Education (1977) were selected as the goals to be used in this study.A group of trained evaluators assessed the individual packages. The findings revealed that only two packages received mean and median scores of 5.0 or higher on a rating scale of 1 through 7. This included the assessment of all five areas included in the evaluation instrument. The other 12 packages received mean and median scores of 2.5 or less on a rating scale of 1 through 7.In comparing the.packages to the goals for art education, two packages met all of the goals for art education. These two packages were the same ones which received the highest ratings on the evaluation instrument. Two other packages met two of the goals for art education. All of the other packages met only one of the goals for art education. The majority of the packages met one of two goals, either "art education as a means of developing creative and flexible forms of thinking" or "art education as a means of helping students understand and appreciate art."
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BSU/oai:cardinalscholar.bsu.edu:handle/175626 |
| Date | 03 June 2011 |
| Creators | Copeland, Betty Jo Denney |
| Contributors | Jones, Donald W. |
| Source Sets | Ball State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | viii, 253 leaves ; 28 cm. |
| Source | Virtual Press |
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