Testing of In-depth Content in the Classroom
The New Art Basics project asks participating teachers to not only write but also test the effectiveness of their discipline-specific learning/teaching strategies in a K-12 classroom.
The results of that testing are shared in two ways:
1. By submitting 35mm slides to be scanned (or digitized images sent as attachments to e-mail documents) and then placed below the strategy on the Living Curriculum database.
2. Filing an evaluation report on the effectiveness of the strategy, in actual usage, in the test reporting file attached to each strategy design, on the Living Curriculum database. These evaluation, numerical and written, are automatically compiled and available to everyone who is considering using that strategy in their own classroom. This makes the database curriculum truly interactive for all participants.
NAB believes that the real effectiveness of any educational strategy can only be discovered in actual practice. The cumulative wisdom of K-12 teacher/researchers from throughout the country determines what deserves to stay in the database and be actively tested and what does not prove educationally effective and should be eliminated.
Testing of In-depth Content in the Classroom