Abstract
EVALUATION OF ART LITERACY LEVELS OF STUDENTS WHO STUDY IN FINE ARTS HIGH SCHOOL IN TERMS OF VARIABLES
Art literacy is one of the literacy types that has been a focus of interest in Turkey in
recent years. Art Literacy in Turkey has started to be a type of literacy that educators and
the young are interested in and contributed to its development individually and through
projects. To that end, it is aimed to evaluate the literacy level of the students who study
at Fine Arts High Schools in terms of various variables.
The study was performed with 1477 students who studied at 8 Fine Arts High Schools
in Art and Music departments in 2014-2015 school year by using scanning method. The
data were collected by “Art Literacy Scale” which was created to assess the art literacy
level of the students. T test and One way Anova analyses were used to analyze the data. A
a result of the study, it was seen that there was a significant difference between art literacy level of the students and their genders, enjoying the participation in art activities, enjoying doing homework about art lessons and third and fourth sub-dimensions department variant; by the way, no significant difference was found between art literacy level and first and second sub-dimension department variant.
Keywords
Literacy, Art Literacy, Fine Arts High School, Painting Art, Music.
