ASSESSMENT TOOLS IN ART AND DESIGN: A CASE STUDY OF PRINCESS NORA UNIVERSITY

The assessment of student learning, student development and program outcomes is essential to the heath and validity of academic programs. Students' performance in art and design is often considered difficult to assess with reliability because it depends on subjective judgments and it deals with varied components of the problem solving act and the cognitive processes underlying them, including application of understanding, organizing, formulating, solving, reflecting, and communicating processes. This paper identifies and discusses some of the distinctive strengths and weaknesses of the assessment tools used in Princess Nora University College of Art and Design - Saudi Arabia.