The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Quality Music Program

by Paul Kimpton / Delwyn Harnisch

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.