Post on 15-Jul-2015
Leveraging technology for music
assessment in a classroom
Dan Massoth
American International School - Kuwait
What are the possibilities?
• Online learning and blended classrooms
• Project-based activities
• Game-based learning and assessment
• Learning with mobile and handheld devices
• Instructional tools like interactive whiteboards
• Web-based projects, explorations and research
• Student created media
• Collaborative on-line tools
• Social media
• Headline! For iPad rollout
How best to leverage technology
• Philosophies• Overall approach
• TPACK
• SAMR
• Techniques
• Issues related authentic assessment in music• Internal
• External
• Devices
Approach
The teaching of the curriculum as well as
overall instructional goals (including assessment)
should drive the use of technology in the
classroom and not vice-versa.
SAMR Model
of Technology
Integration
Dr. Rubin Puentedurahttp://www.hippasus.com/rrpweblog/
The “Forgotten”
Steps of the
SAMR Model
of Technology
Integration
Enhanced
SAMR Model
of Technology
Integration
Dr. Rubin Puentedurahttp://www.hippasus.com/rrpweblog/
Technology is going to revolutionize
education, right?
The assessment of student
achievement in a fine arts class has
become essential. Why?
• Educationally, assessment is needed to validate and document student achievement and to improve teaching and learning.
• Politically, the arts will not be able to thrive without the same level of measurement and data that is provided by other core subjects
• Funding will be diverted to subjects and programs that can measure student achievement. “What gets measured, gets funded”
Purposes of assessment
• Provide feedback to students about their progress
• Give parents feedback on their child’s performance
• Rate or rank students
• Provide feedback to instructors on their effectiveness
Anything else?
Purpose Primary Users Construct
Linkage to
Curriculum Interpretation
Instructional Guidance Teachers,
Students
Narrow Achievement
Targets
Strong CR, Individual
Student Placement and
Selection
School
Administrators
(and Others)
Aptitude, Achievement Varies Varies, Individual
Informing Comparisons
Among Educational
Approaches
School
Administrators,
Researchers
Achievement
(curriculum-specific;
curriculum-neutral)
Varies NR, Group
Educational Management Public, Elected
Officials,
Administrators
Achievement Grows higher NR (may look like
CR), Group
Directing Student Effort Students Aptitude, Achievement Varies (should
be strong)
mostly CR,
Individual
Focusing the System Teachers, School
Administrators
Achievement Grows higher NR (may look like
CR), Group
Shaping Public
Perceptions
Public, Elected
Officials,
Administrators
Achievement Should be
Strong
NR, Group
From: How is Testing Supposed to Improve Schooling?
Presented at the 2012 NCME conference by Dr. Ed Haertel, Stanford University
Seven Broad Purposes of Testing
4 types of arts behaviors: Types of assessment
1.Responding
2.Creating
3.Performing
4.Listening
1. Rubrics
2. Playing tests
3. Written tests
4. Practice sheets
5. Teacher Observation
6. Portfolios
7. Peer and Self-Assessment
Assessing Musical Behaviors: The type of assessment
must match the knowledge or skill
Perform
Create
Respond
Connect
Authentic Assessment
Authentic assessment accomplishes each of the following goals:
• Requires students to develop responses rather than select frompredetermined options
• Elicits higher order thinking in addition to basic skills
• Uses samples of student work (portfolios) collected over anextended time period
• Stems from clear criteria made known to students
• Allows for the possibility of multiple human judgments
• Relates more closely to classroom learning
• Teaches students to evaluate their own work
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3 Features of a Useful Rubric
• Evaluative Criteria:
– Factors to be used when judging the quality of a student’s response
• Quality Distinctions:
– For each criterion, different levels of quality in a student’s work must be described
• Application Strategy:
– Users of the rubric are told whether a student’s response is to be judged using the evaluative criteria or on a criterion-by-criterion basis (holistic vs. analytic)
• From Popham, W. James (2006). Mastering Assessment: A Self-Service System for Educators. Routledge: NY
Three Primary Techniques
• Portfolio
• Growth
• Pretest – Posttest
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Portfolio
A student portfolio can be created from a variety of
sources.• Performances, Art work, • Classroom work• Home work• Rubrics• Short answer questions• Reflections• Other data
Each of these examples can be collected and then used
for grading and conferences.
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Growth
• Sight reading / Sight singing
• Rhythm accuracy
• Technique development
• Sequential, spiraling curricula
• Learning targets
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Pretest – Posttest
• End of course current year or
previous year
• Individual / Group
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Poll Everywhere
Performance assessment
#8 - No Looking Back – SOE book 2
Using “smart” technology for
assesssment
• Turing test
• ELA and the big testing companies
• Issues
Issues related to performance
assessment - recognition
• Variations in timbre
• Variations in microphone placement and pickup
• Latency
• Issues with background sound
• Pitch
• Articulation
Issues related to data analysis
• Full duplex audio latency
• Quantization
• Difficulty level
• Intonation
• Articulation
• Multiple starts/assessment inconsistency
Issues related to data display
• Roadmap/repeat
• Quantity and quality of feedback
• Notation
Which one?
Phone
• Monitor information
• Updates
• Brief conversations
Tablet
• Consume information
Laptop/Desktop
• Projects
• Entering information
Basics
• Metronome
• Tuner
• Audio Recorder
• Video Recorder
• YouTube
Data management
Instrumental music performance
software market
• Essential Elements Interactive
• iPas
• Music Prodigy
• SmartMusic
Performance assessment software
comparisonName Repertoire Assessment Platform Cost
Essential
Elements
Interactive
2 Method books Recording iPad
Mac
PC
Free with
book
iPas 2 Method books Performance - chart Mac
PC
Free with
book
Music
Prodigy
Public domain titles Performance -Red and
green note
iPad
Mac
PC
$24 - 30
SmartMusic Over 10,000 solos,
method books,
exercises, concert titles
Red and green note iPad
Mac
PC
$40 / 140
On line tools with some assessment
capabilities
• Music First
• Charanga
Online standardized assessment
Time to play
How did we do?
• Online learning and blended classrooms
• Project-based activities
• Game-based learning and assessment
• Learning with mobile and handheld devices
• Instructional tools like interactive whiteboards
• Web-based projects, explorations and research
• Student created media
• Collaborative on-line tools
• Social media