Among public secondary school music and visual arts specialists who reported that they used various types of assessments to determine student progress and achievement in the arts, percentage distribution and standard error for reporting the extent to which they used various types of assessments: School year 2009

NCES 2012-014rev
April 2012

Arts Education in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools: 1999–2000 and 2009–10

Table 123.	Among public secondary school music and visual arts specialists who reported that they used various types of assessments to determine student progress and achievement in the arts, percentage distribution and standard error for reporting the extent to which they used various types of assessments: School year 2009–10

Type of assessment	Music specialist								Visual arts specialist
	Not at all		Small extent		Moderate extent		Great extent		Not at all		Small extent		Moderate extent		Great extent
	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error	Percent	Standard error

Observation	‡	(†)	3	(0.5)	13	(1.3)	84	(1.3)	‡	(†)	4	(0.6)	17	(1.2)	79	(1.4)
Selected-response assessments (i.e., multiple choice, matching)	22	(1.4)	39	(1.6)	30	(1.5)	9	(0.9)	22	(1.3)	48	(1.5)	23	(1.3)	7	(0.9)
Assessments requiring short written answers or essays	22	(1.4)	42	(1.7)	28	(1.7)	8	(0.9)	8	(0.8)	38	(1.6)	36	(1.6)	18	(1.6)
Performance tasks or projects	1!	(0.4)	5	(0.8)	18	(1.3)	76	(1.5)	1!	(0.2)	1!	(0.3)	8	(1.2)	90	(1.2)
Portfolio collection of student work	55	(1.7)	27	(1.4)	12	(1.2)	7	(0.8)	8	(0.8)	16	(1.4)	28	(1.5)	48	(1.9)
Developed rubrics	15	(1.1)	29	(1.5)	33	(1.6)	23	(1.5)	4	(0.6)	11	(1.1)	31	(1.4)	54	(1.9)

† Not applicable.

! Interpret data with caution; the coefficient of variation is greater than or equal to 30 percent.

‡ Reporting standards not met.

NOTE: Percents are based on the percentage of teachers who used any formal assessments to determine student progress and achievement in the arts (98 percent of secondary music specialists and 99 percent of secondary visual arts specialists). Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. 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 Secondary School Music Specialists,” FRSS 103M, 2009–10; and “Survey of Secondary School Visual Arts Specialists,” FRSS 103VA, 2009–10.