Analysing art texts · AS 91489
Analyse texts about art
Level 3 · Year 134 creditsInternalAchievement StandardArt History 3.8
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National attainment · NZQA · 2024
313 students sat this in 2024 · 87% passed
Excellence32.6%
Merit20.3%
Achieved33.9%
Not Achieved13.3%
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This standard asks you to read texts about art (like essays, interviews, or videos) and explain what the authors are saying and what their ideas mean about art. You need to identify interpretations and back up your thinking with evidence from the texts themselves.
What you actually do
- ·Explain the ideas and views that the author of the text is expressing about art
- ·Identify different interpretations about art that appear in the text
- ·Use specific evidence and quotes from the text to support your explanation
- ·Connect ideas from the text to other sources or wider contexts (for Merit and Excellence)
- ·Evaluate how important or significant these ideas are and what they tell us about art (for Excellence)
AAchieved
You explain what the author says about art and back it up with evidence from the text.
MMerit
You link the author's ideas together and bring in other sources to show deeper understanding of what the text is saying about art.
E