Scale Your Way to Music Assessment: The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Quality Music Program/G7068

Scale Your Way to Music Assessment is a hands-on, step-by-step action plan for using assessment to improve your teaching and your students performances.
This book and CD-ROM describe in detail how to teach students to become not only accurate and consistent assessors of musical performance, but how to meaningfully self- and peer-assess and set goals for practicing and improving the performance of a group. Authors Paul Kimpton and Del Harnisch show you how to:

Generate a list of musical skills

Define goals

Build an assessment inventory

Formulate assessments

Collect data

and more, all with the goal of empowering learners and educators with assessment. The extensive range of topics covered includes:

Tips on developing performance assessments

Music department goals and how they align with district goals

How to develop written assessments

Tips on test writing

Writing course goals

Sample written questions

Helping a program realize its vision

Test-making programs

Developing performance assessments

Test assessment software

Writing course objectives

State and national standards

How to develop listening assessments

School and district goals

How to involve students in taking responsibility for improving skill



Also included are six extensive appendixes with actual written and listening tests, outlines of a four-year testing program for band, choir, and orchestra, a listing of websites and email addresses, a glossary of terms, and more.



The accompanying CD-ROM includes sample data, tests, music examples, and reference material.



Everything you need to begin developing a quality music assessment program is right here.

Paul Kimpton is Director of Bands and Department Chair of Hinsdale South High School in Darien, Illinois.



Delwyn Harnisch is Professor of Educational Psychology at the Uni-versity of Nebraska, Lincoln.