Cracking+the+Rubric+-+Investigation

Cracking the rubric understanding the terminology (Last version of the Assessment Criteria)
 * Investigation work: **
 * 1) **Cultural/Contextual research ** – This refer to the degree to which your book shows that you analyzed, considered, **compared and reflected** upon art from other cultures and time periods, especially its function and significance, both within its original context and today. We do not create art in a vacuum. All art is interrelated.


 * 1) **Technical/Process ** – this criterion references your book’s ability to display the degree to which you kept **careful record** of how you developed effective skills and awareness of techniques and processes that enabled you to create your studio pieces. It also refers to work in your book that shows that you developed your ability to understand and discuss the techniques and methodologies of other artists.


 * 1) **Investigations ** – This refers to evidence in your book that you developed clear, coherent strategies for investigating the visual qualities, ideas and their context, and **various (ie. More than one) approach** to ways of formulating your art. If also examines how your book shows evidence of connections between all these things.


 * 1) **Depth & Breadth – **This is a difficult one to understand easily, but you’ll get used to it. It is like the above criterion **c**, but most specifically it refers to the degree to which your book shows evidence that your research and investigations took in a **broad range of influences**, ideas and inspirations that helped you to formulate a successful synthesis of these for your own work. It also looks at the degree to which you examined these thoroughly, pushing your understanding of them and helping you to infuse your work with a more informed and articulate means of expression and meaning.


 * 1) **Vocabulary ** – This criterion examines the evidence in your book that indicates the degree to which you learned and became familiar with an effective and accurate specialist vocabulary in the visual arts. A good artist uses the **proper terminology** to refer to his or her work and the work of others.


 * 1) **Acknowledgment of Sources ** – As in all your coursework in the IB, it is important that you **cite the sources** and origins of the work you do in this class. This criterion considers the degree to which you accurately and consistently cite the sources you use in your book.


 * 1) **Presentation **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> – This criterion looks at how you present your work in your book. It considers effective and creative writing regarding your work and the degree to which you demonstrate **thoughtful, critical evaluations** of your work. It also looks for evidence that you were discriminating in the ways that you chose your methods and approaches towards your work.


 * 1) **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Integration **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> – This criterion refers to your book’s relevance to your studio work. All that you do in your book should reference your studio work. This criterion evaluates the levels to which your studio work is emphatically evolved, supported, justified and explained in your book. It is imperative that his be seen as a developmental process – it should be continuously taking place as you develop your work, not simply after the fact. Your investigation workbook is an **organic work**, not a scrapbook in which you paste what you’ve accomplished. It should grow and develop with your studio work and reflect that face.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Under the new system, currently, there are 8 criteria, 30 ish pages are to be ‘sent’; so you should select 3-4 pages which show your best abilities in each criteria. Obviously some of the criteria will overlap (examples of vocabulary will exist in the “investigation” section. Basically please plan to provide the “examiner” with a balanced series of photocopies which (more or less) equally correspond to each criterion.