The research papers gathered in this volume were presented at the 1992 and 1993 meetings of the American Educational Research Association most were part of the Arts and Learning Special Interest Group programs. Papers focus on the following themes: assessing student learning; women's movement in art education; and art education in various contexts. Following an editorial, papers are: "Assessing Student Learning in the Visual Arts: Application of a Theoretical Model" (J. S. Koroscik); "Alternative Methodology for Assessing Student Learning in Visual Arts: The Diagnostic Profile of Art Understandings" (C. S. Stavropoulos); "Women's Clubs, Art, and Society" (M. A. Stankiewicz); "Art Education and Suffrage: Campaigns of Similar Priority for Nova Scotia's Clubwomen" (D. Soucy); "Art Work and Social Work: Transition in the Teens" (K. Finley-Stansbury); "The Women's Movement in Art Education, 1880-1930: Response to Symposium Papers" (E. Garber); "Implications of Gendered Technology for Art Education: The Case Study of a Male Drawing Machine" (M. L. Morbey); "The Efficacy of Using the Visual Arts to Teach Math and Reading Concepts to Fifth Graders" (L. V. Willett); "The Transmission and Reproduction of Art in a Navajo Public School System" (M. Stokrocki); "Neo-DBAE in the 1990s" (K. A. Hamblen); "Artifacts, Spaces, and History: Art Education and Material Culture Studies" (P. E. Bolin); "Doing Local Art History: Avenues of Acquaintance" (A. E. Calvert); "Video, Visual Narrative and Child Culture" (J. Maitland-Gholson); and "Deconstructing Developmental Models of Artistic Expression and Aesthetic Response" (K. A. Hamblen). (BT)