Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Bland, Lisa Shawn
Author's Email Address	shawnphd@hotmail.com
URN	etd-04112005-170329
Title	The Effects of a self-reflective Learning Process on Student Art Performance
Degree	Doctor of Philosophy
Department	Art Education, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Charles Dorn Committee Chair Gary Peterson Committee Member Marsia Rosal Committee Member Thomas Anderson Committee Member
Keywords	Art Performance Art Assessment
Date of Defense	2005-02-04
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract This study is a quasi-experimental study designed primarily to investigate whether a student self-regulated learning strategy would positively affect the student art performance of 50 students from two intact eighth-grade classes in a Georgia Public School System. The treatment for the experimental group was instruction and practice in reflecting personal artwork through planning, monitoring, and evaluation on their artwork through written assessment. Implementing a self-regulated learning strategy using art portfolios allowed students to plan, sequence, and monitor their learning. The aim for this study was to strengthen the metacognitive and reflective skills of students to assist them in adopting strategies and reflective processes that enable them to define, plan, and self-monitor their thinking through problem solving. Students in the experimental group and the control group both completed pretest and posttest portfolios of artwork. Students in the experimental group also completed a self-reflective writing pretest and posttest. Results from the experimental group indicated an increase in the scores of the written reflections that led the researcher to conclude that instructional strategies that teach students to practice self-regulated learning skills while learning course content improves both the learners’ process of self-evaluation and their self-assessment strategies providing metacognitive knowledge. However, the art performance scores for students in the experimental group and the control group were about the same for the posttest, identifying the results of the treatment did not show a significant increase for art performance.
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