Unit 1: Sustained Investigation
3-D Art & Design · Unit 1 · Paper 1

Sustained Investigation unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

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Each paper is built from this unit’s 50 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 1, Paper 1” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.
Suggested time 34 min 31 points0/17 attempted
1

Adhesives matched to material

2

Ephemeral and time-based work

3

Failure that is structural

4

Writing about a structural decision

5

Firing and glaze

6

Isolating a variable in 3-D

7

Lighting 3-D work

8

Plaster and mold making

9

Welding and metal fabrication

10

Why 3-D inquiries need making to answer

11

Documenting three-dimensional work

12

Appropriation in 3-D

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Scale relative to the body

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Fabrication and joining

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Inquiry framed as a material or spatial problem

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Clay: earthenware, stoneware, porcelain

3 pts

Free response

7 pts

Write the Sustained Investigation reflection on practice, experimentation, and revision for a 3-D portfolio (about 1,200 characters in the real submission). Your response should (a) restate the guiding question in one clause; (b) describe one deliberate experiment, naming the variable changed and what was held constant; (c) describe one revision, giving the observed problem, the specific change, and the resulting effect; (d) explain how the material and process carry the idea rather than merely realizing a shape, using accurate 3-D vocabulary; and (e) identify what your next work would test and why.