Question: How
do you assess the quality and level of success or failure
for the projects that students create, especially when
you’re asking students to create something completely
new and highly experimental? What do you use as a guide
for assessment that makes sense to you as instructor
and to your students?
Assessment of student success
and failure often depends, first, on students understanding
of how to develop and then follow a good development
contract. The contract that I work up with students
for their projects is built upon their clear understanding
of how they are going to use prior knowledge in the
construction of their new media work.
Success is therefore defined
as moving beyond already understood skills and theories
into new territory. For students with considerable background
with the material, finding new areas to explore can
take time and requires the students to do some preliminary
research into the field in conjunction with me.
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