Music Assessment for Better Ensembles
Music Assessment for Better Ensembles

Author: Brian P. Shaw

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-09-07

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 019060316X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Assessment is central to ensemble music. Yet, teachers do not always have the expertise to harness its potential to improve rehearsals and performances, and promote and document student learning. Written specifically for band, choir, and orchestra teachers at all levels, this book contains all of the information necessary to design and use assessment in a thriving music classroom. The first section addresses foundations such as learning targets, metacognition, and growth mindset. Assessment jargon such as formative assessment, summative assessment, Assessment for Learning, self and peer assessment, and authentic assessment is clarified and illustrated with music examples. Readers will learn practical strategies for choosing which concepts to assess, which methods to use, and how to use results to provide accurate and effective feedback to students. The second section brings assessment fundamentals into the music room. Filled with practical advice, each chapter examines a different facet of musicianship. Sample assessments in all performance areas are provided, including music literacy, fundamentals and technique, terminology, interpretation, evaluation and critique, composition and improvisation, beliefs and attitudes, and more. There is an entire chapter devoted to tips for applying assessment and feedback strategies in rehearsals, which can result in a fresh and effective approach to performance preparation. The final section is an examination of grading practices in music classes. Readers will gain information about ensemble grades that communicate what students know and are able to do, rather than whether they remembered their black socks. A variety of approaches, including Standards-Based Grading, are evaluated in light of music teachers' unique situations. The book concludes with ways for music educators to take their first steps toward implementing these strategies in their own teaching, including the use of instructional technology. Assessing like an expert is possible, and this book is just what teachers need to get started.

Music Assessment for Better Ensembles
Music Assessment for Better Ensembles

Author: Brian P. Shaw

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-09-07

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0190603178

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Assessment is central to ensemble music. Yet, teachers do not always have the expertise to harness its potential to improve rehearsals and performances, and promote and document student learning. Written specifically for band, choir, and orchestra teachers at all levels, this book contains all of the information necessary to design and use assessment in a thriving music classroom. The first section addresses foundations such as learning targets, metacognition, and growth mindset. Assessment jargon such as formative assessment, summative assessment, Assessment for Learning, self and peer assessment, and authentic assessment is clarified and illustrated with music examples. Readers will learn practical strategies for choosing which concepts to assess, which methods to use, and how to use results to provide accurate and effective feedback to students. The second section brings assessment fundamentals into the music room. Filled with practical advice, each chapter examines a different facet of musicianship. Sample assessments in all performance areas are provided, including music literacy, fundamentals and technique, terminology, interpretation, evaluation and critique, composition and improvisation, beliefs and attitudes, and more. There is an entire chapter devoted to tips for applying assessment and feedback strategies in rehearsals, which can result in a fresh and effective approach to performance preparation. The final section is an examination of grading practices in music classes. Readers will gain information about ensemble grades that communicate what students know and are able to do, rather than whether they remembered their black socks. A variety of approaches, including Standards-Based Grading, are evaluated in light of music teachers' unique situations. The book concludes with ways for music educators to take their first steps toward implementing these strategies in their own teaching, including the use of instructional technology. Assessing like an expert is possible, and this book is just what teachers need to get started.

Assessing Music Performance
Assessing Music Performance

Author: Kevin McNulty, Sr.

Publisher:

Published: 2018-01-16

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780989796583

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In ¿Assessing Music Performance¿A Valid System for Measuring Student Achievement and Growth,¿ Kevin McNulty, Sr. brings together his many years teaching band and orchestra and his professional judging career that spans over forty years. This breakthrough work gives instrumental and choral directors a solid philosophical basis for assessing performance students, using a performance-based system as the primary means of grading rather than systems used on other subjects, including general music. McNulty contends that only way to accurately measure the desired outcomes of music performance is through the prism of a music-performance teacher¿s background and experience as a musician, and not simply against a list of criteria or an extraneous written exam. Furthermore, while other disciplines in schools use rating almost exclusively, his system supports the notion that rating and ranking are required in music performance evaluation. Ranking not only establishes program standards but also provides distinction, fine-tunes teacher tolerance, provides data for seating and ensemble placement, allows for program measurement, and facilitates the escalation of performance standards year-to-year. ¿Assessing Music Performance¿A Valid System for Measuring Student Achievement and Growth¿ is a ¿must have¿ for all music directors seeking a valid way to grade students and answer the call for all subjects to measure what they teach.

Spotlight on Assessment in Music Education
Spotlight on Assessment in Music Education

Author:

Publisher: Spotlight Series

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781565451438

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Full of valuable tips and commentary that will help music teachers effectively assess the music skills of their students. One of MENC's popular Spotlight series comprising articles first published in the state MEA journals.

Shaping Sound Musicians
Shaping Sound Musicians

Author: Patricia Ann O'Toole

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9781579992118

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Publisher description: This text helps lead both students and teachers to a deeper understanding of the music they encounter. This teaching model, developed by the Wisconsin Comprehensive Musicianship Project (CMP), invites music educators, both vetran and novice, to create meaningful, comprehensive lesson plans with the help of five basic points: Analysis, Outcomes, Strategies, Assessment, and Music selection. These points lead to a greater understanding of the music performed while helping teachers provide accountability through creative assessment strategies, program concerts that teach musical and historical concepts, encourage cross-curricular application of music education, and meet National Standards.

Winding it Back
Winding it Back

Author: Alice Hammel

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0190201622

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Winding it Back: Teaching to Individual Differences in Music Classroom and Ensemble Settings provides multiple access points and adequate learning conditions while honoring the individual needs of all students in music classrooms.

Assessment in Music Education
Assessment in Music Education

Author: Martin Fautley

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2010-01-14

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780193362895

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book discusses assessment and its role in teaching and learning music in the classroom. For improving learning and raising standards, it puts the case for formative assessment, day-by-day, rather than summative assessment at the end of key stages. The advice is relevant to classroom and instrumental teachers, and the academic community.

Teaching and Evaluating Music Performance at University
Teaching and Evaluating Music Performance at University

Author: John Encarnacao

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-04-28

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1000063496

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Fresh perspectives on teaching and evaluating music performance in higher education are offered in this book. One-to-one pedagogy and Western art music, once default positions of instrumental teaching, are giving way to a range of approaches that seek to engage with the challenges of the music industry and higher education sector funding models of the twenty-first century. Many of these approaches – formal, informal, semi-autonomous, notated, using improvisation or aleatory principles, incorporating new technology – are discussed here. Chapters also consider the evolution of the student, play as a medium for learning, reflective essay writing, multimodal performance, interactivity and assessment criteria. The contributors to this edited volume are lecturer-practitioners – choristers, instrumentalists, producers and technologists who ground their research in real-life situations. The perspectives extend to the challenges of professional development programs and in several chapters incorporate the experiences of students. Grounded in the latest music education research, the book surveys a contemporary landscape where all types of musical expression are valued; not just those of the conservatory model of decades past. This volume will provide ideas and spark debate for anyone teaching and evaluating music performance in higher education.

The Oxford Handbook of Assessment Policy and Practice in Music Education, Volume 2
The Oxford Handbook of Assessment Policy and Practice in Music Education, Volume 2

Author: Timothy Brophy

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-01-02

Total Pages: 930

ISBN-13: 0190248157

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In the music classroom, instructors who hope to receive aid are required to provide data on their classroom programs. Due to the lack of reliable, valid large-scale assessments of student achievement in music, however, music educators in schools that accept funds face a considerable challenge in finding a way to measure student learning in their classrooms. From Australia to Taiwan to the Netherlands, music teachers experience similar struggles in the quest for a definitive assessment resource that can be used by both music educators and researchers. In this two-volume Handbook, contributors from across the globe come together to provide an authority on the assessment, measurement, and evaluation of student learning in music. The Handbook's first volume emphasizes international and theoretical perspectives on music education assessment in the major world regions. This volume also looks at technical aspects of measurement in music, and outlines situations where theoretical foundations can be applied to the development of tests in music. The Handbook's second volume offers a series of practical and US-focused approaches to music education assessment. Chapters address assessment in different types of US classrooms; how to assess specific skills or requirements; and how assessment can be used in tertiary and music teacher education classrooms. Together, both volumes of The Oxford Handbook of Assessment in Music Education pave the way forward for music educators and researchers in the field.