Music Assessment

The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Quality Music Assessment Program: Scale Your Way to Music Assessment (2nd Edition)

By Paul Kimpton and Delwyn Harnisch
The Podium Series
$39.95

Improve your teaching and enhance your students’ performance with our action plan for music assessment. Everything you need to begin developing a quality music assessment program is included in our book, Scale Your Way to Music Assessment: The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Quality Music Program. Our book applies whether you are teaching in a public school or providing homeschool music lessons.

This book and downloadable files offer a hands-on, step-by-step action plan for using assessment to improve your teaching and your students’ performance. Count on Adventures With Music, Inc. to provide you with the tools you need to offer students top quality music education.

Our program describes 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. We show teachers who are providing public or homeschool music education how to:
• Generate a List of Musical Skills
• Define Goals
• Build an Assessment Inventory
• Formulate Assessments
• Collect Data

The goal of our program is to empower learners and educators through assessment. The extensive range of topics covered includes the following:
• Tips on Developing Performance Assessments
• How to Develop Written Assessments
• How to Develop Listening Assessments
• How to Align National Standards with Local Goals
• Tips on Writing Test Questions for Various Grade Levels
• Writing Music Course Goals & Objectives
• Sample Written and Listening Questions
• How a Music Education Program Can Realize Its Vision
• Music Test Assessment Software and Music Education Platforms
• Frequently Asked Questions on Assessment
• How to Involve Students in Taking Responsibility for Improving Skills

Also included are 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 downloadable files include sample data, tests, music examples, and reference material. Enable your students to excel in music with the help of our book.

Contact us today for information on ordering our book on music assessment. We proudly serve customers throughout the United States and Canada.