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NSS Visual Arts
Curriculum and Assessment
and Its Implementation
Major Changes to the Curriculum
 It adopts an open and flexible curriculum framework,
replacing examination-oriented teaching syllabuses;
 It emphasises both art appreciation and criticism and
art making;
 It puts more emphasis on studying the contextual
character of the visual arts; and
 It emphasises the further development of the mind to
which the visual arts can contribute.
Aims
It aims to enable students:
 enrich their aesthetics and arts experience;
 strengthen their abilities to appreciate and create various forms
of visual arts work aesthetically and critically;
 develop perceptual abilities, generic skills and meta-cognition
through autonomous and open-ended processes of inquiry in
visual arts learning;
 enhance multiple perspectives, and cultural and cross cultural
understanding through exploration of the visual arts of diverse
cultures;
 cultivate personal refinement, values and attitudes, self-identity
and a sense of commitment towards the community, the nation
and the world; and
 acquire a foundation for pursuing educational and career
opportunities in the visual arts and creative industries.
Curriculum Framework
Students learn through a balanced programme of study consisting of
two intertwined and interrelated strands:
visual arts appreciation & criticism in context and
visual arts making
Curriculum Framework
Learning Strands:
• visual arts
appreciation &
criticism in context
• visual arts making
Selection of Learning Opportunities:
Scope of Learning
• Visual arts of at least two
different cultural contexts:
Chinese, Western, local, etc.
• Visual Arts of different media
Curriculum Framework
Selection of Learning Opportunities:
Knowledge:
• formal knowledge
• knowledge in context
Skills:
• for art appreciation & criticism and art making
• verbal presentation of art appreciation & criticism
Experiences:
• general, aesthetic and artistic experiences
Values and attitude
Assessment
School-based Assessment (50%)
One portfolio consisting of :
Research workbook (Presentations on art appreciation and criticism
in context in relation to art making / critical studies, and research
process
(20%)
Artwork / Critical studies of a theme (4 pieces of work in each
portfolio)
(30%)
Public Examination (4 hours) (50%)
Paper 1– Visual presentation of a theme, OR
Paper 2– Design
Each Paper consists of the following:
(i) Art appreciation and criticism
(ii) Art making
(10%)
(40%)