Evaluation of Graduate Groups on the Visual Arts Course Curriculum

Abstract

Art is understood in its most general sense as the expression of creativity and imagination. Art and its qualities, which have been observed to emerge in different types in every society from the beginning of human history to the present, can be acquired through education. It is also important how art is taught to raise creative individuals who anticipate producing original, common and alternative ideas. When the literature is examined, it can be seen that there are studies on art education programs. It is important that art education, defined as a process of mental activities, be carried out starting from an early age. The main purpose of this research is to examine the postgraduate education theses conducted between 1990 and 2022 on the Visual Arts Curriculum, which has been implemented in Turkey since 1948, in terms of the determined criteria. The qualitative research method was adopted in the research and the data was accessed through document review. In the first stage of this study, the master's and doctoral theses (without restrictions) in the sample group were accessed from the website of the YÖK Documentation Department. In the second stage, the theses transferred to the computer environment were analyzed by separating them according to years. The analysis of the study revealed that measurement and evaluation methods in postgraduate studies vary. It has been observed that, in addition to traditional measurement and evaluation methods, alternative methods are also used in graduate theses. It has been determined that methods such as process evaluation, portfolio evaluation and self-evaluation have an important place in addition to student performance. This diversity reflects the need to take students' creativity, aesthetic perception and skills into account in the measurement and evaluation processes due to the nature of the visual arts course.