Deborah N. Filbin

• Doctor of Philosophy
• High School Teacher at Northern Illinois University

National education reform policies that have increased reliance on standardized testing in subjects like reading and math as a way to judge the quality of a teacher's performance have created challenges for educators in visual art and design when they are required to provide data about student growth. Art teachers who utilize alternate forms of ass...

International art programs are available to secondary school students wishing to pursue the study of visual arts at an advanced level. The programs discussed in this entry are the Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education, the Advanced Placement program, and the International Baccalaureate. Generally, these programs encoura...

This paper is a narrative about the ways in which mentorship received by a high school art teacher through her Ph.D. program enabled her to reconstruct student assessment strategies to satisfy the demands of state imposed requirements for the review of teacher effectiveness. The context of the narrative take place in the wake of the PERA legislatio...