The portfolio is one way to assess children’s art. It allows you to see their work from beginning of the class to the given time and the changes and improvements that they have made. This could be applied in English/writing by having the children compile stories that they have written.
Another way of assessing children’s art is by rubric form. Before had the teacher decides what kinds of material she/he wants to see from the given assignment. Then the children turn in their work, the teacher looks over it and then grades it according to the criteria on the rubric. This is done more by individual pieces of work rather than by a group of assignments. This can also be applied to single stories, science projects, book reports and more.
One was that I was assessed in my second grade class was by our journal. It was an art and writing journal. Our teacher would draw some organic line in our journal and we would have to turn that line into a picture and then write about our drawing. We had about two drawings a week in this journal. However, it would probably be a more affective assessment if it were a daily thing. A journal is a lot like combining the portfolio and the rubric forms of assessments. However, I think that if you combine the subject matter with writing about it, the child’s thoughts and feelings are brought out more than by just turning in a picture. Journals are used a lot for English and improving writing skills. But it can also be applied to any subject really. Asking the children to write down their thoughts or feelings on any lesson is a form of journal writing. I think it could easily be applied to science experiments they have done, and letting them explain how they thought it went, etc.
Information found from: http://www.pbs.org/teachers/earlychildhood/articles/assessing.html
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