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Initial Publication Date: December 10, 2008

Evaluating Visual Composition

Tips

  • Allow time for revision. Evaluation as feebback.
  • Focus on the thought process--the ability of the student to defend their choices.
  • Emphasize audience--does this work given its purpose.
  • Use peer feedback--does this work for other people.
  • Involve students in the development of criteria.

Some Choices that Can Go into a Two-Dimensional Visual Composition

Rhetorical

Formal

Cultural

Material

Ethical

Examples of Evaluation Criteria

  • Criteria found in the Carleton's study " Curricular Uses of Visual Materials: A Mixed-Method Institutional Study"
  • A rubric for assessing a brochure produced for a nonprofit organization (Anne Wysocki)
  • A rubric for assessing a the rhetorical analysis of a magazine article (Anne Wysocki)
  • A rubric for responding to a short public service announcement video (Anne Wysocki)
  • A rubric for assessing an argumentative poster (Anne Wysocki)
  • A rubric for assessing a research documentary photography book
  • A rubric for assessing an instruction set on how to be a computer gamer (Anne Wysocki)
  • A rubric for assessing an editorial (Anne Wysocki)
  • A rubric for responding to a short comic on a social issue (Anne Wysocki)
  • A rubric for assessing an online research project (Anne Wysocki)
  • A rubric for responding to a communication project produced for a nonprofit organization (Anne Wysocki)