MUSIC 23241
March 1, 2011
Authentic Assessment
This article was particularly hard for me to understand and try to figure out how to even write a blog about it. The article starts off by listing all sorts of sources about assessing music programs. Then after the long list of resources, the actual article just consists of terms that correlate with the assessment process and their definitions. There really isn't much else to write about.
In high school I never really thought about how my choir teacher may have been assessing my progress in the two choirs I was a member of and the music theory course I took. I'm not sure what type of assessment she may have used or what forms she may have gone over with all of her students. If I had to guess I would guess that she used a mix of all of them really but the one that stands out the most is summative assessment and possibly diagnostic assessment.
I feel that the most useful form of assessment for a music teacher would probably be the summative assessment with the diagnostic assessment mixed in. I feel this way because neither form involves comparing a student to another. Also, the summative assessment just deals with achievement after instructions and then assigning a grade after that. The diagnostic assessment helps a teacher understand what a student already knows and what they are capable of so they can eventually notice their improvement and assess them based on this.
Bauer, William I. Authentic assessment in instrumental music education.
Great comments in the last paragraph! I enjoyed reading about why you feel those particular forms of assessment would be good to use. Continue to ask and answer those sorts of questions in your writing. Knowing and being able to explain WHY you would choose a particular teaching/assessment method, classroom management technique, etc. over another is important when having to defend your beliefs with administration and parents.
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