CCSESA

Valid and Comprehensive Assessment

Build and implement valid and comprehensive visual and performing arts assessment systems designed to promote reflective practice and data-driven planning in order to improve academic, linguistic, and socio-cultural outcomes for each specific group of students.

Overview of Principle 5: Valid and Comprehensive Assessment

Planning Tool for Principle 5: Valid and Comprehensive Assessment

Around the state of California, students and teachers, schools and communities, are rising to the challenge of creating high-quality arts education, often in very difficult circumstances. Below are some examples of valid and comprehensive assessment implemented in schools.

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School/District	Description	Online resource	Contact information
Chula Vista High School SCPA Sweetwater Unified	Short video in-depth description of an 800-student arts “school within a school” in an inner city setting.	Click Here To View Video	Ron Jessee ronarts@sdcoe.net
Alameda County Alliance for the Arts	The Alliance offers a specialist program that includes ongoing assessment strategies and applications.	Click Here To View Web site	Click Here for Team Contact Page

	Thorner Elementary School Thorner Elementary School's curriculum is based upon the California Visual and Performing Arts Content Standards, as found in the Visual and Performing Arts Framework, 2004.
	Garfield Elementary School Garfield Elementary School is a rural, one-school district serving a total of 61 students in grades K-6. The school offers standards-based arts instruction in all four arts disciplines.
	Los Angeles Unified School District Arts Instructional Guide The Arts Education Branch of LAUSD has completed a draft of their K-6 Arts Instructional Guides (AIG), and is piloting the guidelines this year in their 310 elementary Arts Program Schools.
	Monson-Sultana In 1994, the new superintendent, Mr. Tom Giampietro, saw that the band program was less than satisfactory for this small school district.
	Capistrano Unified School District - The MITRE Project District middle school visual arts teachers met monthly for three hours after school throughout a year to create a standards-based curriculum for our students that would have clear goals.