Advanced Placement Art History: Effective Teaching Strategies in the Art Beyond the European Content Area

This thesis presents a study of current research on effective teaching strategies in art beyond the European tradition content area of the Advanced Placement Art History (APAH) examination administered by the College Board. Three Advanced Placement Art History teachers participated in this study. Each teacher demonstrated successful and effective strategies in her APAH program. The criteria for selection required that each participant taught the class for three years (2001-4) and their students scored higher than the national average as published by the College Board. Each teacher discussed with the author how they teach the art beyond the European tradition content area. Presented in this study are teaching strategies each participant used in the classroom. Emphasis is placed on effective strategies that ask the students to participate in their learning.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Art Education

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Art Education

Year dc:date.available

2005

Author dc:creator

• Head, Donna J.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Pamela G. Taylor

• interactive learning
• teaching
• APAH
• Art Education
• Education

Statement dc:rights

• © The Author

Identifier

https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1037

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarscompass.vcu.edu:etd-2036