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Show Me: Principles for Assessing Students' Visual Literacy
Author(s) -
Callow Jon
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
the reading teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.642
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1936-2714
pISSN - 0034-0561
DOI - 10.1598/rt.61.8.3
Subject(s) - visual literacy , literacy , psychology , set (abstract data type) , context (archaeology) , mathematics education , pedagogy , key (lock) , computer science , paleontology , computer security , biology , programming language
This article examines assessment of students' visual literacy. In the context of current theory of multimodal texts, the author presents key features for visual literacy assessment and how this assessment might be undertaken. The article then proposes a set of principles and a framework for developing assessment tasks in authentic classroom settings.