Assessing Change in Adolescents’ Art-Making Over Time: A Methodology Designed to Collect Data from Visual Artwork

DiBartolomeo, D.J., Clark, Z., & Davis, K. (2014, April). Assessing change in adolescents’ art-making over time: A methodology. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Philadelphia, PA.

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Donna DiBartolomeo

Harvard University - Harvard Graduate School of Education

Zachary Clark

Harvard University - Harvard Graduate School of Education

Katie Davis

University of Washington - The Information School

Date Written: 2014

Abstract

This paper presents a novel data analytic approach used to analyze changes in visual artworks over time. Drawing on principles of art historical criticism, our research team devised a comprehensive coding scheme that captures both technical and content attributes. After establishing inter-rater agreement, the researcher team applied the coding scheme to 414 pieces of adolescent artwork published in a teen art and literary magazine between 1990 and 2011. Analyses of the occurrence of each code revealed notable changes in adolescent creative production over the twenty-year period that we investigated. Applying this analytic approach to visual art can yield insights into artworks, their creators, and nuanced changes in creative production over time.

Keywords: visual arts, methods, creativity

Suggested Citation

DiBartolomeo, Donna and Clark, Zachary and Davis, Katie, Assessing Change in Adolescents’ Art-Making Over Time: A Methodology Designed to Collect Data from Visual Artwork (2014). DiBartolomeo, D.J., Clark, Z., & Davis, K. (2014, April). Assessing change in adolescents’ art-making over time: A methodology. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Philadelphia, PA., Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2982148

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