Global Assessment Tools | Global Art Ed

Illinois Arts Learning Standards

Creating a. Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, or empowers people’s lives
Presenting a. Analyze and describe the impact that an exhibition or collection has on personal awareness of social, cultural, or political beliefs and understandings.
Responding a. Analyze how one’s understanding of the world is affected by experiencing visual imagery
Connecting a. Compare uses of art in a variety of societal, cultural, and historical contexts and make connections to uses of art in contemporary and local contexts.

Global Education Assessment Tools

The tools below offer various means of assessing your school’s program in global education, and are valuable to help frame action steps moving forward.

http://sites.asiasociety.org/education/globalcompetence/

The Asia Society has everything from lesson plans to videos to this global competence inventory.

Beliefs, Events, and Values Inventory (BEVI).

The BEVI is an inventory of beliefs which can be used to help students examine deeply held cultural ideas and convictions.

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Duke Global Assessment Tool

Duke’s site provides a self-scoring rubric, which models a scope and sequence of development of the global student through understanding of global economic and political systems, intercultural communication, and technology, among other resources.

Education for Global Citizenship: A Guide for Schools – Oxfam’s curriculum for Global Citizenship
Oxfam’s site is particularly strong for enabling student activism as global citizens. Although some aspects of the printable guides are geared towards students in the UK, they are easily modifiable for American teachers and also provide graphic organizers for student use as they advocate for a cause.

Oxfam Education: Global Citizenship Information and Support

Oxfam has additional lesson plans, resources, guides, and action steps for teachers incorporating global citizen initiatives in their classrooms. This program supports the inclusion of real-world projects and actions.

Oxfam Education: Global Citizenship Information and Support

The Global Education Checklist is an extremely comprehensive guide to assessing the efficacy of global education and competencies in your classroom. I find it provides a good guide for development of your global classroom moving forward as well as an assessment of your classroom’s current level of globalization.

Global Education Checklist for Teachers, Schools, School Systems and State Education Agencies –The American Forum for Global
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The Global Perspectives Inventory allows participants to asses their own cultural biases and beliefs and understand how these beliefs impact their interactions with others.

From the site: “Data collected from the GPI can help you understand how individual experiences influence learning and the development of a global perspective. GPI data provide a starting point for understanding how students think (cognitive), how they view themselves (intrapersonal), and how they relate to others from different cultures and backgrounds or who have different values (interpersonal). Results can be used to guide conversations related to student learning, program improvement, and institutional effectiveness.”