Art Education and Accountability

Annotated bibliography

(2006). Retrieved February 22, 2007, from Project Zero Web site: http://www.pz.harvard.edu/index.htm

This site is monitored by Harvard University and is the home of Project Zero, a project with the mission to enhance learning, creativity and thinking in the arts, humanities and scientific studies.  The site houses a plethora of studies, projects and resources.  Project Zero has been around for 39 years and has been a support for the understanding and changes we have in education.  The layout of the site is very simple to follow; while the site contains many pages and a lot of information, it is easy to find your way around and all the links work.  What helps in that ease, is the layout of all the pages past the home page.  All other pages have the same background with links in the same location with the same menu options. (132 words)

Siegesmund, Richard (2002). Bringing Accountability to Art Education. Retrieved February 27, 2007, from Kappa Delta Pi Record Web site: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4009/is_200210/ai_n9143760/pg_1

Kappa Delta Pi Record is and academic publication that provides coverage and analysis of higher education.  The publication that was used dealt with concerns about accountabilities ever growing importance and the evolution of art education curriculum.  The article lists benefits for the classroom teacher, thinking in art, accountability in the art classroom.  The Kappa Delta Pi database is updated at the end of every season.  The database is part of a larger site called LookSmart, a website that houses articles on a wide range of topics.  The site is relatively ease and clear with only a white background, black text and blue links that offer a wide range of sources.  The only negative thing about the site is the amount of advertisements that are located sometimes in the middle of the article you are reading. (135 words)

Davis, Jack D. (1993). Art Education in the 1990s: Meeting the Challenges of Accountability. Studies in Art Education, 34, Retrieved February 22, 2007, from http://www.jstor.org/view/00393541/ap040102/04a00060/0?frame=noframe&userID=d89fa809@wartburg.edu/01cce4406800501b888ca&dpi=3&config=jstor

The article is within the archives of a scholarly site titled “JSTOR.”  The site is available in nine
Languages and gives the viewer tools to understand the site, including a demo, participation information, information about the site, and the choice to search or browse the archives.  Organization of the archives starts through browsing by categorizing the articles by genre. For searches, the viewer can sort their results by relevance, title, or date.  The layout of the site has a white background with a filigree toolbar at the top.  All lettering is black with blue bold links.  Articles are in a text box that you have to click to progress page by page, which may be time consuming.  Text can be small to read on some articles, but over all the quality is clearly visible. (134 words)