Evaluation
The Tyler School of Art is committed to exploring assessment strategies, specific to the arts. Critical to the School is the development and refinement of courses that prepare students for a global environment in their specific art discipline, as well as prepare students within the framework of general intellectual awareness. Assessment is an opportunity to reevaluate the stated learning outcomes of each program, providing useful insight into areas of pedagogy and development that may not have been studied in such a way before.
Foundation Courses prepare students to select majors in Tyler BFA programs. The Foundation Program is an intensive and highly structured series of courses that form the fundamental basis for studio practice, critical thinking, and the knowledge and implementation of principles of visual expression.
The Foundation Department has implemented broad guidelines to be used by its faculty for evaluating student progress beginning in Fall, 2010. We have posted those guidelines here so students, faculty, and the art and design community can have a thoughtful conversation about how achievement in the art and design can be assessed.
How to read these forms
For each course, there is a specified set of Learning Objectives. Each instructor constructs his or her syllabus around making sure those objectives are met, and they are given latitude to assign projects or other means of instruction that allow them to determine how well a student meets the classes goals.
More information on Tyler’s Assessment practices, please follow this link to the Assessment page.
Each of the links below leads to a spreadsheet that thoroughly describes each objective. The objectives are broken down into evaluations that correspond to traditional letter grades. Each section takes into account all course objectives in creating a final evaluation for each student. Please note that each class's spreadsheet runs over 4 - 7 pages in length (so you see the complete criteria)
2D Foundation Principles 1521 & 1522
3D Foundations Principles 1531 & 1532