Assessment in Music Education

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.

CONTENTS

• 1 Introduction to assessment in music education
• 2 Clarifying terminologies: uses and purposes of assessment
• 3 Reliability and validity
• 4 Evidencing achievement
• 5 Learning and knowledge in classroom music
• 6 Why assess?
• 7 7. Progression, development, and assessment
• 8 Quality, values, and the affective domain
• 9 Developing appropriate criteria for assessment
• 10 Developing classroom performing by the use of assessment
• 11 Developing classroom composing through assessment
• 12 Developing listening through assessment
• 13 Developing classroom improvising by the use of assessment
• 14 Assessment and ICT in music education
• 15 The role of baseline assessment
• 16 Putting it together: holistic approaches to learning and assessment in music
• 17 The way forwards: new developments in assessment