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Fine Arts Assessments
MT. LEBANON SCHOOL DISTRICT
Fine Arts Information: 412-344-2030
Mt. Lebanon School District adheres to the Pennsylvania Academic Standards for the Arts and Humanities. The standards focus on a balanced approach to arts education emphasizing four major components: Performance/Production/Exhibition; Historical and Cultural Context; Critical Response; and Aesthetic Response. The arts and humanities are interconnected through the inclusion of history, criticism, and aesthetics.
Pennsylvania Chapter 4 regulations indicate that all content areas not assessed on the PSSA assessment system must be assessed locally by the individual school districts through the development of an assessment system showing that all students are achieving all academic standards in all content areas. In the 2005-2006 school year, Mt. Lebanon developed an arts assessment system to meet this chapter 4 requirement.
The arts assessments will help to provide all students with equitable opportunities to demonstrate learning. These assessments will help determine the degree to which students are achieving the Pennsylvania Academic Standards for the Arts and Humanities. They are the measures selected to collect data to track student progress and to help identify areas of improvement to move all students toward meeting the target of 95% proficiency.
The common assessments were developed around current curriculum, aligned to the Pennsylvania Academic Standards for Arts and Humanities and conducted as part of regular instruction during class time. The performance tasks were designed by district faculty based on those standards we determined as essential learnings. Currently we have common assessments in 3rd Grade Music, 5th Grade Visual Art, 7th grade Music, and 8th Grade Visual Art. We also developed assessments at the course level at the high school level.
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