Fine Arts Research (Program Support)

Fine arts educators experience the long- and short-term benefits of a quality fine arts education. They see their students succeed in the arts, and in other areas. However, others may not immediately understand the connection between fine arts learning and student success. As a result, fine arts often must justify their programs by showing how students develop and demonstrate fine arts knowledge and skills AND how fine arts education impacts student learning in other content areas.

This section of the CEDFA website houses a database of studies that highlight the impact of a quality fine arts education on achievement in other academic areas. Neither CEDFA nor the Texas Education Agency makes any claims about the quality of the research presented here.

You may select and view the data by fine arts discipline or by other subject areas. Also you may print the entire support document, which includes all of the findings.

Please choose from one or the other drop-down menu. Choosing from both drop-down boxes will further narrow your search (for example, only studies that relate Art to Mathematics, as opposed to studies relating Art to all of the other areas of learning). Furthermore, leaving both drop-down menus in the default position (that is, the "--- Select ---" option) will return all studies on all subjects.

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For additional information on learning in the arts and student academic and social development, please visit the Arts Education Partnership's Critical Links study.