NAEA Need to Know Webcast: Accessing State and Federal Data Systems for Conducting Research in Art Education
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NAEA Need to Know Webcast: Accessing State and Federal Data Systems for Conducting Research in Art Education
May 21, 2020
Cost: FREE
Presenters:
F. Robert Sabol
Chair of the Department of Art and Design, Purdue University
Sunil Iyengar
Director, Office of Research & Analysis, National Endowment for the Arts
Claus von Zastrow
Principal, Education Commission of the States
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A persistent need for empirical research in the field of art education exists. Identifying and accessing extant databases that contain data about art education programs in public, charter, and private schools and
in art museums, community centers, and other educational venues is often perceived by researchers as a barrier to conducting quantitative studies of questions and issues about contemporary art education raised by the field, stakeholders, decision makers, and the public. A panel of representatives from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Education Commission of the States will provide descriptions of various sources of quantitative databases currently available to researchers in art education. The session will include discussion of a collaborative project, the State Data Infrastructure Project (SDIP), which offers stakeholders in states strategies for gaining access to, and reporting on, art education data tha t states already collect. It will also include an introduction to the SDIP, its tools, and examples of what states have done to report actionable information on art education. Discussion of other existing state and national arts databases, a sampling of strategies and procedures for accessing them, technical support and toolkits tested for analyzing data or conducting research in existing databases, challenges of reporting art education data, and issues about conducting quantitative research in art education will be explored.
Please note that participation in this webcast does not include NAEA professional development credit.
