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THE INFLUENCE OF HIGH SCHOOL DRAMATIC ARTS CLASSES ON REMEDIAL READERS ON THE FLORIDA COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT TEST
Title
THE INFLUENCE OF HIGH SCHOOL DRAMATIC ARTS CLASSES ON REMEDIAL READERS ON THE FLORIDA COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT TEST.
Creator
Backel, Michelle, Murray, Barbara, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
This is the age of accountability in public schools. The public wants to know that the schools are producing high achieving students who are ready for the future. With this push for accountability the rise in standardized testing should not be surprising. However, it is difficult to test an abstract course such as the arts. With the increase of standardized testing and the recent tough economic times, it is no wonder that performing arts classes in our public schools are often the first to be...
Show moreThis is the age of accountability in public schools. The public wants to know that the schools are producing high achieving students who are ready for the future. With this push for accountability the rise in standardized testing should not be surprising. However, it is difficult to test an abstract course such as the arts. With the increase of standardized testing and the recent tough economic times, it is no wonder that performing arts classes in our public schools are often the first to be pared down or dissolved (Mendels, 2008). It is the presiding feeling that these courses, while nice and fun for the students, do not offer any tangible, real, or marketable skills. ÂÂ"…imparting knowledge about the arts typically has not been a priority goal in our nationÂÂ's schoolsÂÂ" (Ward, 1983, ¶ 2). This study explored the benefits that students can achieve through their participation in the dramatic arts courses including, but not limited to, enhancement of reading and verbal scores. This study was designed to illustrate that the arts are a natural and necessary part of the high school educational experience and can play an instrumental part of learning even in a distressed economy, and/or in a regulated testing arena. Students who were freshmen or sophomores in 2008-2009 and scored a Level 1 or 2 (below average) score on the reading portion of the state test, the FCAT, and were from Orange and Seminole Counties in Florida became the sample set. These students were disaggregated into categories of students who took a dramatic arts course or not, by gender, by race, and by socioeconomic status to determine if participation in a dramatic arts course in high school would help raise a remedial reading score on the required state test. Although the data did not show a statistical significance, it did show a positive trend in a few of the tested areas. Suggestions for why the data appear to show only a trend and not significance are discussed further in Chapter 5.
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Date Issued
2010
Identifier
CFE0003219, ucf:48582
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0003219
Real People Acting Out Interpersonal Issues With Paper Representations
Title
Real People Acting Out Interpersonal Issues With Paper Representations.
Creator
Dufner, Gary, Poindexter, Carla, Raimundi-Ortiz, Wanda, Price, Mark, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
In this thesis body of work, I have interacted and collaborated with five friends to create images exploring human relationships. The subject matter illustrates my friends and myself acting out interpersonal issues with paper representations of one another. It has been my aim to represent my imagery in a campy thematic way. I include a discussion of the images in my body of work from both my perspective and the perspective of my models. The figurative paper images (")stand in(") as...
Show moreIn this thesis body of work, I have interacted and collaborated with five friends to create images exploring human relationships. The subject matter illustrates my friends and myself acting out interpersonal issues with paper representations of one another. It has been my aim to represent my imagery in a campy thematic way. I include a discussion of the images in my body of work from both my perspective and the perspective of my models. The figurative paper images (")stand in(") as representatives of the genders of their subjects.I have explored multiple points of view, constructing, reconstructing and deconstructing complex compositions; experimenting with a variety of focal points; and I have increased my knowledge of lighting and color effects through digital manipulation.
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Date Issued
2015
Identifier
CFE0005607, ucf:52868
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0005607