Table 39. | Among public elementary school visual arts specialists who participated in professional development activities, percent and standard error reporting that participation in the activity improved their teaching to a moderate or great extent, by school characteristics: School year 2009–10 |
School characteristic | Activities designed for visual arts teachers | Activities designed for all teachers | ||||||||||||||
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Applied study in art studio (e.g., painting, photography) | Developing knowledge about visual arts (e.g., historical, cultural, analytical) | Connecting visual arts learning with other subject areas | Research on arts and student learning (e.g., arts and cognition) | Integrating educational technologies into visual arts instruction | Incorporating state or district standards into instruction | Student assessment | A subject area that is unrelated to visual arts | |||||||||
Percent | Standard error |
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All public elementary school | 75 | (2.2) | 77 | (2.0) | 72 | (2.2) | 70 | (2.3) | 68 | (2.2) | 59 | (2.0) | 56 | (1.7) | 42 | (2.4) |
visual arts specialists | ||||||||||||||||
Enrollment size | ||||||||||||||||
Less than 300 | 81 | (4.9) | 79 | (5.2) | 67 | (5.0) | 73 | (6.6) | 67 | (5.0) | 54 | (5.1) | 58 | (5.4) | 35 | (6.4) |
300 to 499 | 71 | (4.3) | 75 | (3.5) | 71 | (3.5) | 72 | (3.8) | 67 | (3.8) | 56 | (3.6) | 52 | (3.4) | 40 | (3.8) |
500 or more | 77 | (2.8) | 78 | (2.9) | 75 | (2.7) | 67 | (3.5) | 70 | (3.0) | 64 | (3.0) | 58 | (3.4) | 47 | (3.9) |
Community type | ||||||||||||||||
City | 77 | (3.7) | 81 | (2.8) | 79 | (3.3) | 69 | (4.9) | 74 | (3.8) | 66 | (3.2) | 61 | (4.1) | 40 | (4.7) |
Suburban | 72 | (4.0) | 75 | (3.2) | 70 | (3.8) | 69 | (3.6) | 68 | (3.3) | 58 | (3.1) | 53 | (3.4) | 40 | (4.1) |
Town | 73 | (7.3) | 76 | (6.0) | 66 | (5.6) | 61 | (10.3) | 56 | (7.2) | 54 | (5.9) | 48 | (6.7) | 45 | (7.9) |
Rural | 80 | (3.5) | 75 | (4.2) | 68 | (4.0) | 75 | (4.4) | 67 | (4.1) | 51 | (4.2) | 57 | (4.3) | 46 | (6.0) |
Region | ||||||||||||||||
Northeast | 72 | (4.0) | 79 | (4.2) | 74 | (4.9) | 73 | (3.9) | 64 | (4.1) | 53 | (4.2) | 49 | (3.3) | 41 | (4.5) |
Southeast | 76 | (3.0) | 81 | (3.4) | 71 | (3.2) | 71 | (5.0) | 72 | (3.8) | 62 | (2.8) | 62 | (3.6) | 47 | (6.0) |
Central | 78 | (4.6) | 72 | (5.0) | 70 | (4.0) | 67 | (4.4) | 67 | (4.2) | 58 | (3.9) | 56 | (3.3) | 38 | (5.3) |
West | 76 | (4.7) | 76 | (5.2) | 72 | (4.8) | 71 | (6.0) | 72 | (5.5) | 63 | (4.4) | 56 | (5.1) | 44 | (7.9) |
Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities1 |
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Less than 6 percent | 84 | (3.7) | 76 | (4.8) | 71 | (4.5) | 68 | (5.6) | 74 | (4.5) | 47 | (4.7) | 53 | (5.4) | 45 | (5.5) |
6 to 20 percent | 66 | (4.2) | 73 | (4.5) | 66 | (4.3) | 62 | (4.5) | 62 | (4.8) | 57 | (3.9) | 54 | (4.2) | 36 | (5.0) |
21 to 49 percent | 72 | (5.1) | 77 | (5.1) | 74 | (5.2) | 75 | (5.1) | 60 | (4.4) | 62 | (4.5) | 53 | (5.0) | 41 | (6.4) |
50 percent or more | 80 | (3.1) | 81 | (2.8) | 75 | (2.9) | 73 | (3.7) | 75 | (3.5) | 65 | (2.7) | 60 | (3.9) | 45 | (3.7) |
Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch |
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0 to 25 percent | 72 | (4.3) | 74 | (4.8) | 73 | (5.1) | 71 | (4.5) | 67 | (4.1) | 58 | (3.9) | 61 | (3.6) | 39 | (5.0) |
26 to 50 percent | 72 | (4.3) | 73 | (4.3) | 67 | (4.4) | 72 | (5.3) | 65 | (4.6) | 53 | (4.3) | 48 | (4.1) | 39 | (5.6) |
51 to 75 percent | 78 | (4.2) | 81 | (4.3) | 71 | (3.5) | 71 | (6.0) | 70 | (4.4) | 55 | (3.9) | 49 | (3.7) | 41 | (5.4) |
76 percent or more | 82 | (4.3) | 82 | (3.7) | 76 | (4.0) | 67 | (5.1) | 73 | (4.5) | 69 | (3.2) | 64 | (4.5) | 49 | (4.4) |
1 Other races/ethnicities include Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander and American Indian/Alaska Native students. | ||||||||||||||||
NOTE: Percents are based on the percentage of teachers who participated in each professional development activity (52 percent for applied study in art studio, 56 percent for developing knowledge about visual arts, 69 percent for connecting visual arts learning with other subject areas, 46 percent for research on arts and student learning, 62 percent for in integrating educational technology into visual arts instruction, 70 percent for student assessment, and 41 percent for a subject area that is unrelated to visual arts). Arts specialists are education professionals with a teaching certificate in an arts discipline—such as music, visual arts, dance, or drama/theatre—who provide separate instruction in that discipline. | ||||||||||||||||
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Fast Response Survey System, “Survey of Elementary School Visual Arts Specialists,” FRSS 102VA, 2009–10. |