Assessment should be ongoing and include a wide range of assessment techniques focusing on the students' creative and responsive processes, as well as on any culminating product. In visual art, teachers must rely to a great extent on their observation and record-keeping abilities. Students should be encouraged to take an active role in their own assessment. In this module, students should look at a variety of cultures for examples of their sculptural works. They should also examine sculpture from early times to the present, to see how sculpture has evolved as an art form and to experience the great variety of three-dimensional works.
Sculpture can serve to commemorate people or events, or to glorify the state.
Students may wish to embark on a study of sculptures created for such purposes. The students' own community may be a source of commemorative sculptures for study. Sculptures of today can have a variety of functions. Contemporary artists explore the innate qualities of their materials, the elements of art, humour, social issues, etc. Whatever the material or function, sculptors create three-dimensional works for the strength and presence they possess.