Assessment Method In Design Aesthetics



ASSESSMENT METHODS

IN DESIGN AESTHETICS

During Design Aesthetic class that lectured by Dr Tan, he taught about Assessment Method in Design Aesthetic.

There are two ways of learning design:

Approach 1 : Tabula Rasa by John Locke
Approach 2 : Americanism or Pragmatism


Approach 1 
TABULA RASA by JOHN LOCKE


John Locke is an English philosopher and political theorist (1632-1704). He was laid much of the groundwork for the Enlightenment and made central contributions to the development of liberalism. Trained in medicine, he was a key advocate of the empirical approaches of the Scientific Revolution. In his “Essay Concerning Human Understanding,” he advanced a theory of the self as a blank page, with knowledge and identity arising only from accumulated experience.

Tabula rasa, ( Latin: “scraped tablet”—i.e., “clean slate”) in epistemology (theory of knowledge) and psychology, a supposed condition that empiricists attribute to the human mind before ideas have been imprinted on it by the reaction of the senses to the external world of objects.

By using Tabula Rasa by John Locke, all knowledge comes through the sense via experience, learning process and reflection on experience itself.

Human can be described as "Blank Slate". The knowledge will gained during experience process. John Locke published the idea that children are born as “Blank Slates” (a “Tabula Rasa”), and that life experiences form who they become as adults. He stated that knowledge should be acquired by careful observation. There are no innate ideas whereas all knowledge comes from experience or reflection. Mind is a blank slated written on by experience (Tabula Rasa)


Approach 2
AMERICANISM or PRAGMATISM


Pragmatism as a philosophical movement began in the United States in the 1870s. Charles Sanders Peirce (and his Pragmatic Maxim) is given credit for its development, along with later twentieth century contributors, William James and John Dewey

Pragmatists consider thought an instrument or tool for prediction, problem solving and action. Pragmatists contend that most philosophical topics—such as the nature of knowledge, language, concepts, meaning, belief, and science—are all best viewed in terms of their practical uses and successes. The philosophy of pragmatism “emphasizes the practical application of ideas by acting on them to actually test them in human experiences”.

What Is Pragmatism?



Dr. Tan also taught us about 
Four Levels of Learning


Donald Kirkpatrick, Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin and past president of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), first published his Four-Level Training Evaluation Model in 1959, in the US Training and Development Journal.

The model was then updated in 1975, and again in 1994, when he published his best-known work, "Evaluating Training Programs."

The four levels are:
- Reaction
- Learning
- Behavior
- Results




To make us understand about create a rubric and make assessment, Dr. Tan asked us to draw himself. Every student have given 2 minutes to draw him. After that, three students were chosen to became a judge to make assessment to the drawing. 

From this activity, students were explained about the criterion when creating a rubrics. Based on the rubric that made, analysis and make can be given to the drawing. The rubric became the reference so that every judges know the guideline to give mark based on the characteristics.

There are
Three Methods of Assessment


Criterion-referenced assessment
- Assess performance with reference to predetermined criteria and rubrics.
- Criterion-referenced test and assessment are designed to measure student performance against a fixed set of predetermined criteria or learning standards.
- Criteria that determined the standard usually used rubric.
Rubrics are a tool to help you evaluate student performance. Knowing how to create and use rubrics gives you a better understanding of assessment and another option for assessing student performance. Rubrics are a great way to improve communication, learning, and grading fairness.


Example of Rubric that show criteria as guideline to give mark for student that drawing Dr Tan.


Norm-referenced assessment
Assess performance by comparing one to his or her peers.
- Norm-referenced tests are designed to rank test takers on a “bell curve,” or a distribution of scores that resembles, when graphed, the outline of a bell




Ipsative assessment

- Assess one’s performance by comparing his or her current performance to the past - performance.
- A person's performance is compared with their own earlier performance, with a view to determining whether any improvement has been made, or any 'added value' brought about.





Lets create rubric to know mark and level of ourselves :)








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