Sunday, December 4
Assessment Post 2
Performance assessment is very different because it is much harder to grade. Especially in my area of music. 6 students can play a F major scale without missing a note, but they all have a different tone quality. How do you as a teacher decide what is necessarily better? In band, performance assessment is probably most common through practice tests. These are tests in which the class is told in advance what to practice and then they come in on a future date and play it for the class. These tests are graded on how well the material is performed. I think the best way to grade these is by presenting a rubric of how they will be graded that is as specific as possible. That way the students know what to practice and know what they will be graded on. It makes grading something intangible, a little easier for the teacher.
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I agree that performance assessment in the music classroom may be difficult to grade in the way that academic classes are graded, but I feel like that shouldn't be the reason why this kind of assessment should be labeled as difficult. This is because in performing music classes, the point isn't to spew out facts, but to make sure they are making decent growth with singing or playing an instrument. It's not supposed to be graded the same way as other forms of assessment.
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