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Based on recent student performance on the AP Exam, the areas of concern have strong implications for teaching and instruction. First, essay questions contain multiple tasks, asking first for factual information, such as a work¿s art-historical period, title, or artist¿s name, and then for contextual analysis. Most students have been well trained in visual analysis but not all make the connections to context (why and how works of art were made) required on the exam. The course must teach students to understand works of art through contextual analysis and within their historical framework by examining issues such as politics, religion, patronage, gender, function, and ethnicity.
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