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The Evaluation Process

Sheri Alexander

CUR 528

February 5, 2018

Professor Siddeeqah Johnson

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The Evaluation Process

It is the current end of the 2019 summer session and the end of year performance for the

course in Performance Art. The purpose of the summer session will help us with deciding

whether the Performance Art will be added to the current Fine Arts Department full-time

scheduling or should we leave the course for summer session only. Evaluation Process helps to

determine if the class will be added to Weber College and if it is substantiated or not. We will

delve into the reasons for the course and why we want to add it to the current full-time

curriculum at Weber college. The evaluation should start with focusing on issues that need to be

researched, the overall operations, implementation, outcomes and the effectiveness of the course.

Gathering research and data from the college students, faculty, and the evaluations from the

summer session from the 2019 summer session which includes data for analysis we find the

scenarios as follows throughout the rest of this evaluation process. Let us begin to show the

evaluation process.

Description of Course

Performance Art has been around since the 1960's, and it is a way for students and professional

artist to express themselves while adding a contemporary feel to the design and using

performance as the nature of the art. We must also understand that this form of skill in the 21st

century is a unique way that the students can express themselves through using the performer's

body and the relationship it has with the audience, time and space are all elements of this form of

art. (Bucknell, 2017)

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Identifying the Problem

The course is on a trial period as a summer session course, and once it proves to be substantiated,

we will add the class to the full-time academic scheduling for the Fine Arts Department at Weber

College.

The current enrollment into the Fine Arts Program at Weber College stands at a current

enrollment of 200 students, overall. The total of students that the course must undertake to have

the class go into the summer session we must see a participation total of 6 students, which have

so far shown to be true. This figure is the current student capacity for performing their end of

course performance. There is also the intended desire to have a performance of a 30-minute

showing for the final participation at the end of course performance.

Also, the total credits that are associated with this course will be three credit hours and

will impact the student's time for four hours a day every day of the week. That is a total of 20

hours a week, and there are eight weeks during a summer session which equals approximately

160 hours towards the curriculum. This amount of time should allow for the needed time in

attendance of the course over the summer session. This amount of time is justifiable for the

allotted credit hours. The charge for the audience which will come out to be $5.00 per person and

these funds will be set aside by the academic committee which will cover the cost of the

auditorium and will allow each student to help with spending on supplies needed for the

performance.

Purpose

The purpose for the evaluation is to see if the college can undertake to add a new course

to the full-time academic scheduling and this finding through the results of the enrollment into
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the summer session and the evaluation questionnaire the audience is given during the end of

course performance. Each data will require for the registration to be six students in the course for

the summer session and the evaluation questionnaire must prove to show 80% satisfaction of the

on the part of the audience. The end of course evaluation by the students will justify the faculty,

instruction of course, course material, the environment of location for the class and the final

performance, the total satisfaction of the student with the course must achieve an 80% overall

score to keep the summer session ongoing into the next year. The achievement needs to prove

90% to get the course to become full-time academic scheduling.

The Data Collected

The research within the collected data justifies the city community and the student's

participation and satisfaction of the course. See below for a diagram illustrating the need for the

program and the delight of the audience and student's evaluation, and the overall number of

participation in the summer session.

 End-of-term evaluations by students during the summer session

 Audience questionnaire evaluations at the end of course performance

 Total enrollment into the Summer 2019 Session for Performance Art

Below is the percentage of students/faculty and the audience which agreed with the statements:

Area of Evaluation Students/Faculty Audience

There is a clear understanding
of the Performance Art and
additional training about the
how it is interpreted by
society.
The Art should be a full-time
curriculum and should be part
90% agreed
55% agreed
10% students still need
45% of the audience still
did not understand the
Art form and how it is
concept of Performance Art
interpreted by society.
95% agree
There are 5% of the 90% agree
students/faculty that do not There are 10% of the
feel that the school should students/faculty that do not
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of the full-time academic take on this art form as a full- feel that the school should
scheduling. time curriculum. take on this art form as a
full-time curriculum.

95% agree 90% agree

The overall course seems to 10% of the audience does
bring more creativity into the 5% of student faculty feel that not feel that the art form
community. this course brings more brings more creativity to
creativity to the community the community

92% agree
The increased attitude
towards the cultural 8% of the Student/ Faculty
90% agree
contemporary art is beneficial says there is an increased
10% of the audience does
for the learning in the Fine attitude toward cultural
not agree
Arts Department to take contemporary art is beneficial
place. for the Fine Arts Dept. to take
place.

With this data, the overall acceptance rate by Students/ Faculty and Audience/

Community does prove that the 2020 Fall/ Winter full-time academic scheduling does, in fact,

prove to be substantiated for the next school year. The course will be on a probationary period so

that it shows the stats time and time again.

Conclusion

The course has proven the substantiation should take place as full-time academic

scheduling in the Fine Arts Department at Weber College for the session beginning in the

academic year of 2020. The data analysis does find the satisfaction of the community and the

student/ faculty to be a percentage of higher than 90% and the summer session will be part of the

following 2020 summer and then become a fall/winter than the spring and course added to the

academic scheduling for the rest of 2021. Each year an evaluation must prove to be substantially

relevant for the upcoming year to carry on the Performance Art to the academic schedule for
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each year. There also shows that the audience/ community should partake in further educational

performances as they scored a 55% on the Survey Questionnaire for understanding the art form.

So, more educational training does need to take place for more than just the summer session.

Once, the audience and the community get a better grasp of the conceptual art form than they

will accept the art as an everyday occurrence for the city of Weber.
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Reference

Bucknell, A. (Jun 21, 2017). Can anything be Performance Art? Retrieved from

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-performance-art

Royse, D., Thyer, B., & Padgett, D. (2009). Program evaluation: An introduction (5th ed.).

Belmont, CA: Cengage Learning.