STANDARD 6: Assessment
The teacher understands and uses multiple methods of assessment to engage learners in their own growth, to monitor learner progress, and to guide the teacher’s and learner’s decision making.
Assessment in music education is traditionally based on student performance but truly ranges much further than that. Assessments should be both formative and summative to allow a wide range of results for the teachers use and should test more than just performance. Other ways to assess a student's knowledge can include written tests for theory or history, oral quizzes or questions during discussion, and many other forms. Formative assessments are based on quick observations during class activities. Summative assessments are more formal and are almost always the traditional sense of a grade. As music educator, it is important to correlate the correct assessment with the best suited piece of each lesson. Assessments should be clear and make sense to the students without verbose questions or difficult directions.
My Education at Ball State has provided me with some experience as the teacher using assessment. When teaching a lesson, we are encouraged to stop the class and correct a phrase while teaching a piece. If the pitches are slightly off or a rhythm seems shaky, it is recommended we model the phrase again before asking the class to loop it, reinforcing the correct performance of the phrase. These are all examples of formative assessment which is a crucial part of teaching a lesson. In Education Psychology 150, we spent an entire unit on appropriate testing and test-writing. Although music uses less written tests than some other subjects, that unit was a valuable part of my education to understand assessment.
As my education ensues, I will continue to have opportunities to continue teaching both in my classroom and in the field. Each lesson will have different assessments I will utilize. My ability and confidence with assessment will increase with each lesson I teach and my time student teaching next semester will give me more experience before leading my own classroom. The following document is from Elementary Education including formative assessment. This allowed me to assess whether or not my students understood the new concept introduced in the lesson.
The teacher understands and uses multiple methods of assessment to engage learners in their own growth, to monitor learner progress, and to guide the teacher’s and learner’s decision making.
Assessment in music education is traditionally based on student performance but truly ranges much further than that. Assessments should be both formative and summative to allow a wide range of results for the teachers use and should test more than just performance. Other ways to assess a student's knowledge can include written tests for theory or history, oral quizzes or questions during discussion, and many other forms. Formative assessments are based on quick observations during class activities. Summative assessments are more formal and are almost always the traditional sense of a grade. As music educator, it is important to correlate the correct assessment with the best suited piece of each lesson. Assessments should be clear and make sense to the students without verbose questions or difficult directions.
My Education at Ball State has provided me with some experience as the teacher using assessment. When teaching a lesson, we are encouraged to stop the class and correct a phrase while teaching a piece. If the pitches are slightly off or a rhythm seems shaky, it is recommended we model the phrase again before asking the class to loop it, reinforcing the correct performance of the phrase. These are all examples of formative assessment which is a crucial part of teaching a lesson. In Education Psychology 150, we spent an entire unit on appropriate testing and test-writing. Although music uses less written tests than some other subjects, that unit was a valuable part of my education to understand assessment.
As my education ensues, I will continue to have opportunities to continue teaching both in my classroom and in the field. Each lesson will have different assessments I will utilize. My ability and confidence with assessment will increase with each lesson I teach and my time student teaching next semester will give me more experience before leading my own classroom. The following document is from Elementary Education including formative assessment. This allowed me to assess whether or not my students understood the new concept introduced in the lesson.
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Revised InTASC Standards (April 2011)
Council of Chief State School Offices. (2011, April). Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC) Model Core Teaching Standards: A Resource for State Dialogue. Washington, DC: Author.
Council of Chief State School Offices. (2011, April). Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC) Model Core Teaching Standards: A Resource for State Dialogue. Washington, DC: Author.