A Study at UOB Calls for Developing Art and Design Students Evaluation Methods

A Study at UOB
Calls for Developing Art and Design Students Evaluation Methods

11 March 2020

A study at the University of
Bahrain (UOB) discussed the importance of developing methods and tools for
evaluating the performance of the art and design program graduates, who are
currently working in the education sector and employ the latest technologies
and digital trends in the educational field.

The study was prepared by a
research team composed of Assistant Professor in the Department of Media,
Tourism and Arts in the College of Arts at the University Dr. Sama Alawi
Al-Hashemi, and the students of Master’s in Media in the College, Nasser Mahdi,
Amina Al-Mawali, and Yasmeena Zaki, which proposed a vision for evaluating
students’ creativity in educational contexts involving social media and digital
applications.

The study was published by the
global magazine “gjae” and was titled: A Proposed Framework for
Evaluating Digital Creativity in Social Media and Multimedia-Based Education in
Art and Design.

The research team submitted a
framework for evaluating the creativity of trainers by using applications and
techniques to improve methods of measuring students’ creative potential, in
order to help educational institutions and universities to evaluate the
creative potential of their teachers and to find and implement the most
effective tools based on multimedia, especially since the current creativity evaluation
frameworks lack the updated criteria for evaluating digitally enhanced
creativity.

Also, the study pointed to
“the lack of research knowledge on educational practices based on
multimedia that enhance creativity in the classroom in the Kingdom of
Bahrain.”

Furthermore, the study explored
the possibility of developing a framework for evaluating students’ activities
and evaluating the effectiveness of teaching curricula based on multimedia in
arts and in designing educational contexts. The sample survey included sixteen
design teachers, whose experiences in multimedia-based teaching were addressed
as a potentially effective approach to enhancing students ‘creativity, as well
as teachers’ innovation in teaching.

 

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Key words

Developing the evaluation of the Arts and Design program graduates,
Evaluation of Creative Potential, University of Bahrain, Department of Media,
Tourism and Arts