On-Screen Marking and Digital Submission of Visual Arts Assessmen

The digital submission and on-screen marking of students' artwork, for the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IBDP) visual arts assessment, was innovative but became progressively more complicated and challenging for IB schools throughout the world. The purpose of this qualitative exploratory case study was to investigate the quality and reliability of marks awarded to visual arts candidates within the IBDP's new on-screen marking and digital submission agenda in a world IB school in the Republic of the Philippines. The problem studied encompassed the reliability and authenticity of digital portfolio evaluations, even though digital assessments had no doubt advanced the traditional assessment system and decreased several of the previous systems complications for the purpose of evaluating students. This qualitative exploratory case study explored many valid perspectives from participants from one of the IB world schools in the Republic of Philippines, and there were eight major themes identified in the study. The study specifically employed the thematic analysis for coding and analyzing the data. NVivo11 software, Microsoft Macros and Microsoft Excel were used to manage the data and facilitate the data analysis. This study was set out to determine the authenticity of teachers and students who were creating, marking, and submitting these digital representations for assessment, and to identify whether visual arts e-Portfolios generate reliable scores. Another main purpose was to examine the equivalency of visual arts portfolio evaluations of students' artwork in digital format, with evaluations of the same works of art in their original form. The study results may advance the understanding of digital art assessment progressive reformation that replaced the traditional visual arts assessment system, and aid in the improvement of visual arts digital assessment procedures. Future research on this topic might construct less subjectivity and technical enhancement in the submission of digital art assessment process.