Art: Content and Analysis measures whether entry-level art teachers have the standards-relevant knowledge, skills, and abilities deemed necessary for beginning professional practice. The test is intended primarily for individuals completing teacher training programs who plan to become art teachers. Test takers typically have completed a bachelor’s degree program in art or art education.

The test questions focus on concepts that are considered central to the study of art, measuring knowledge of art making and the historical and theoretical foundations of art. In Part A, images are included with some of the selected-response questions. In Part B, the three constructed-response questions are divided between one 15-minute question testing historical and theoretical foundations of art and two 10-minute questions testing art making.

For historical and theoretical foundations of art, test takers are asked to respond to a general topic by selecting, identifying, and analyzing a relevant art historical example from memory. Test takers may select a work of art from any culture and any art historical period, but the work must be verifiable. It must appear either in a textbook or online. It may not be your own work or an example of student work. In analyzing the selected work, test takers will have to supply specific visual evidence from memory, as well as engage with relevant art historical and theoretical concepts.

For art making, test takers are asked to write about two (2) works of art that they have created in two different media. Before the test date, test takers will select four (4) works they feel comfortable writing about, photograph or scan each work to a digital JPG file (3 MB or smaller), upload the four (4) digital images online via My Praxis Account, and print a copy of each image (one image per page). During the uploading process, test takers will enter general information such as title, date of completion, media, and dimensions. Each image is given a system-generated ID number that will appear on each image printout. The deadline to upload these images is no later than 3 days before test day. For example, the deadline to upload images for a Saturday appointment is Wednesday at 11:59 p.m. ET. Test takers may change their images and edit the artwork information at any time before this deadline.

Each of the two art-making questions requires test takers to choose one of the four works to write about. The two digital image files that are chosen and used for the art-making responses will be associated with the relevant questions through the system-generated ID number. Therefore, it is extremely important for test takers to bring the printouts of all four digital reproductions of their work to the testing site. The ID number appearing on the printouts is a critical part of the art-making responses.