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Informal Assessment: Verbal questions in class to see if the students understand the material at that moment, such as the length of a certain note.
Formal Assessment: An exam that is planned in advance and used to determine if the students understand the material from a unit, such as music theory.
Traditional assessment: Having a student play a section music that is only in that music and is not related to any real world tasks or other music
Authentic: Testing the student to see if they can hear/identify a major scale. This can be authentic because major scales are used in all kinds of music around the world, such as pop music.
Criterion-referenced assessment: In band world, this could be a playing test over a scale or part of music because this is basic testing style in music because playing is the most
important part of band-if you can't play your instrument, you can't succeed.
Norm-referenced assessment: Standardized tests because it shows percentiles and compares scores to other students who took the test
Standardized Test: WASL the Washington State standardized test, because it is required for graduation. (There is not to my knowledge a widespread band/music standardized test).
Teacher-developed assessment: I could write a small excerpt of music including certain difficulties and assess each student based upon their own knowledge and practice with no outside help or recordings. This way I can monitor each student personally because their is no other interpretation of the music out in the world for them to copy.
Paper-pencil assessment: An exam over the historical and theoretical aspects of the music we are playing for a certain concert.
Performance assessment: A playing test can assess how they perform their instrument and how prepared and practiced they are.
I tried to relate everything to music since I want to be a band director! I had some difficulty relating some of these assessments to music, but I did my best.
I love how you related everything to band. I know that was hard to do since band is mainly performance based. I thought you did a really good job considering that.
ReplyDeleteSeems like you've got a pretty good handle on the vocabulary and your applications to music work out. One thing Gretchen put on her blog about norm-based assessment in music is that it could be used to determine who is first chair. So as you say playing is important, so being able to play a piece would be the criterion part, and then assessing them on tone and other more advanced or subtle skills could be the norm-referenced part.
ReplyDeleteI don't know about standardized tests in music, but I'll bet you could find one. If there is a high-school level music theory class, or music history class with a textbook made by one of the major companies, I guarantee it comes with a bunch of standardized chapter tests.
Don't forget to include other scholarly sources in your posts. Is there a specific music pedagogy class you take or have taken? What would a textbook from that class have to say about assessment?