Full Description
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.
Contents
Dedication
List of Contributors
Part I. Music Assessment in the United States
1. Legislation and Common Law Impacting Assessment Practices in Music Education
Joshua A. Russell
2. The Impact of State Testing on American Music Classrooms
Ronald G. Sherwin and Sarah H. McQuarrie
3. High-stakes Assessment in Music
Glenn E. Nierman
4. The Status of Arts Assessment in the United States
Marcia McCaffrey and Linda T. Lovins
5. Connecticut Common Music Assessments: Collaboratively Building Capacity and Exemplars
Richard Wells and Scott C. Shuler
6. The Florida Performing Fine Arts Assessment Project
Steven N. Kelley, Beth Cummings, and Mary Grace Gordon
7. Kentucky Policies and Practices for Assessment in Music Education: Past, Present, and Future
Robyn Swanson and Philip Shepherd
8. Washington State's Classroom-Based Performance Assessments: Formative and Summative Design for Music Education
Ann René Joseph
9. The Texas Music Assessment: Grassroots Development of a Statewide Music Test
Michele Hentry
10. A Colorado Partnership for Assessment in Music Education
Mark Hudson and Karol Gates
11. Measuring Student Learning in Michigan: The Michigan Arts Education Assessment and Instruction Project
Ryan Shaw and Cynthia Crump Taggart
12. The South Carolina Arts Assessment Program
Ashlee Lewis, Yin Burgess, and Xumei Fan
Part II. The Assessment of Student Music Learning
13. Assessment and Critical Pedagogy: A Perspective from the United States
Frank Abrahams
14. Making Assessment Meaningful, Measurable, and Manageable in the Secondary Music Classroom
Paul H. Kimpton and Ann Kaczkowski Kimton
15. Assessment Practices of American Band Directors
Charles J. Vaughan
16. Assessment Practices of American Choral Music Educators
Al D. Holcolmb
17. Assessment Practices of American Orchestra Directors
Kirk Moss, Stephen Benham, and Kristen Pellegrino
18. Assessment Practices in American Elementary General Music Classrooms
Jeff Marlatt
19. Assessing Music in Early Childhood
Maria Runfola
20. Assessment in the Music Learning Theory-Based Classroom
Jill A. Reese and Heather N. Shouldice
21. Assessment in the Kodály Classroom
Sue Leithold-Bowcock and Ann C. Kay
22. Assessment and Orff Schulwerk Pedagogy
Daniel Johnson
23. Assessment in the Dalcroze Classroom
Marja-Leena Juntunen and Cassandra Eisenreich
24. Analyzing Student Data to Inform Instruction and Increase Student Growth
Denese Odegaard
25. Assessing Music Learning through Compositions
Clint Randles
26. Assessing Singing Voice Development
Joanne Rutkowski
27. Self-Assessment of Singing Accuracy
Patricia Riley
28. Practical Tools and Strategies for Assessing Aural Skills
Nathan Buonviri
29. Assessing Music Listening
Keith Thompson
30. The Assessment of Adult Music Learning in the United States
Jeremy Lane
31. Culturally Responsive Assessment in Music Education
Ebru Tuncer-Boon
32. Spotlight on Children and Young People with Complex Special Needs
Helen Farrell
33. Evidence-based Practices for Music Instruction and Assessment for P-12 Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Robyn Swanson
Part III. Assessment and Music Technology
34. Policy, Standards, and Assessment in Technology-Based Music Instruction
Jay Dorfman
35. Technical Issues Related to Computerized Music Performance Assessment
Daniel Massoth
36. Assessing Music Learning with Technology
William Bauer
Epilogue
37. Assessment in Music Education: The State of the Art
Timothy S. Brophy
