2007 Biennial Cross-Campus Conference in Education

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Building creative capacity for the 21st century: Implications for Caribbean education of the UNESCO World Conference on Arts Education and the CCFA Conference on Societies in Crisis
(School of Education, UWI, St. Augustine, 2008) Sharma, Satanand
This presentation comments on emerging themes of the World Conference on Arts Education 2006
Managing subjectivity in arts assessment
(School of Education, UWI, St. Augustine, 2008) Baptiste, Lennise
Transparency in the award of scores is a major concern in arts assessments. Subjectivity impacts on assessment of the arts due in the main to disagreements about the artistic skills and aesthetic dimensions of artistic works. This paper describes some of the dilemmas facing judges across the artistic domains, and identifies questions that can guide the assessment of creativity. Rubrics are discussed as a method of reducing the impact of subjectivity in arts assessments