Assessment Guidance

BA (Hons) Drawing units: 

1. Drawing 1: Drawing Skills (DR4DRS) 
2. Drawing 1: Exploring Drawing Media (DR4EDM) 
3. Painting 1: Understanding Painting (PT4UPM) 
   
4. Printmaking 1: Introduction to Printmaking (PM4PMI) 
5. Sculpture 1: Starting out in 3D (SC4SCL)
6. Visual Studies 1: Creative Arts Today (CA4CAT) see Visual Studies guidance
7. Drawing 2: Investigating Drawing (DR5DRA) 
8. Drawing 2: Personal Approach to Drawing (DR5PAD) 
9. Drawing 3: Body of Work (DR6BOW) 
10. Drawing 3: Contextual Studies (DR6COS)

Assessment requirements

When considering the learning outcomes for your course unit, it is important to know what you are being asked to submit. These are known as your assessment requirements. In summary, these will include: 

1. A selection of entries from your learning log. These should evidence the connections between your coursework and the learning outcomes. 
2. A selection of creative work. This should be a portfolio or other presentation of your final or strongest pieces. You should present good quality images of your portfolio in a way that enables assessors to see the work clearly and in a way that makes it clear which art works are to be considered as your portfolio. This can be a set of Jpegs, a PDF document or a set of Google slides. For some three dimensional, large scale or heavily textured work, you may wish to present a short video as documentation. Do not write across the front of the drawings. You may wish to provide a subfolder or other secondary submission with details of surface, however a good image can easily be enlarged to view details. You should also submit uncropped versions of your images in a separate subfolder. Please ensure where possible that your images are titled to include dimensions and materials, or that a checklist is provided with those details. 
3. Any written elements such as critical reviews. This should include any required essay, review or report elements. 
4. A reflective presentation or evaluation. This will be an opportunity to reflect on your learning experiences as a whole. It can take the form of a presentation, short video, or a written piece, and should be no longer than 6 minutes or 750 words.

• Choose 8 to 12 entries from your learning log that reference your learning outcomes (2 or 3 entries per learning outcome). These might include examples from sketchbooks. 
• Choose 6 to 10 pieces of creative work. 
• There are no assessed written elements in the DR4DRS course unit. There is a 500 word assessed written element in the EDM drawing course unit.
• Your reflective presentation or evaluation can draw evidence from your wider log, sketchbook and studio experience to give assessors a clear message about your learning experience. Remember – don’t narrate – evaluate! 

• Select 8 to 12 entries from your learning log to complement your submission of creative work and reference your learning outcomes (2 or 3 entries per learning outcome). HE5 is a place where you are asked to travel in two directions simultaneously. On the one hand you are exposing yourself to new ideas, processes and possibilities, and on the other you are starting to build a personal practice and inhabit it in a deeply significant way. Your log entries can demonstrate that productive tension constructively but your selection should present a narrative of evaluation and critique which clearly shows you making sense of your own learning journey through engaging with complex ideas (LO2). Through your learning log we would like to see some evidence of your studio process: for example sketchbook work, preparatory work, or site visits. Use the most effective documentation for you as a practitioner.
• Select 6 to 10 pieces of creative work from across your coursework. Remember to choose your best work here. This is not the place to illustrate improvement by including lesser work. Select your strongest drawings from wherever they appear in your coursework. Consider trying to present a coherent portfolio that demonstrates a developing ability to connect your understanding and synthesise it into your work. 
• You will be submitting your critical review, so follow the Preparing for assessment guidance. 
• Your reflective presentation or evaluation can draw evidence from your wider log, sketchbook and studio experience to give assessors a clear message about your learning experience. Be specific and back up your assertions. For example, don’t say “I have been strongly creative and taken many risks” – show that by describing your journey and process with confidence.

• Select 8 to 12 entries from your learning log that support your submission of creative work (2 or 3 entries per learning outcome). 
• Present a body of creative work from across your coursework. Remember that the goal here is the production of an ambitious and focussed body of work at an accomplished standard. 
• Your reflective presentation or evaluation can draw evidence from your wider log, sketchbook and studio experience to give assessors a clear message about your learning experience. Be specific and back up your assertions. For example, don’t say “I have been strongly creative and taken many risks” – show that by describing your journey and process with confidence. 

• Select 8 to 12 entries from your learning log that demonstrate your research practice relative to the learning outcomes (2 or 3 entries per learning outcome). 
• Submit your extended essay, following the Preparing for assessment guidance. 

• Select 8 to 12 entries from your learning log that support your submission of your creative practice and final presentation of work (2 or 3 entries per learning outcome). 
• Present an ambitious and highly focused body of work to exhibition standard 
• Submit your artists statement and any associated exhibition ephemera