25.025 - Assessing Arts-Based Research in a Post-Truth Era

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session organizes panelist and audience response around a single work of arts-based educational research: professional videos of the research informed performance, “Chicago Butoh.” The script to “Chicago Butoh” is constructed from verbatim transcripts of interviews with a first year teacher in the Chicago Public Schools. During the show, the focus of the audience’s attention is not on the teacher telling stories, but Actor 1’s performance of individual students the teacher narrates. Videos of “Chicago Butoh” are critiqued during the symposium from two perspectives on assessment in arts-based research.
The session is designed to give the audience tools to evaluate the publically informed, multi-modal narratives envisioned by the 2019 AERA Theme. Opportunities for audience interaction are structured across the session.

Sub Unit

• Division D - Measurement and Research Methodologies / Division D - Section 3: Qualitative Research Methods, including ethnographic, post-qualitative, interpretive, and case-based methods, as well as critical, design-based, and participatory and action research methods

Chair

• Tiffany Octavia Harris, University of Illinois

Papers

• Chicago Butoh - Charles F. Vanover, University of South Florida; Bob Devin Jones, The Studio; Jai Shanae; Adrian Anguiano, Columbia College Chicago

• Goal-Oriented Forms of Assessment of Arts-Based Research - Graham W. Lea, University of Manitoba

• Assessing Impact in Arts-Based Research - Kathryn Ann Ricketts, University of Regina

Discussant

• Patricia Leavy, Self-employed