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Model Cornerstone Assessments(MCAs):
A Nationwide Initiative
[email protected]/in/ScShuler
(860) 325-ARTS
Scott C. Shuler, Ph.D
NAfME.org/Standards
Based on a 2/20/15 Keynote for the International Symposium on Assessment in Music Education
National Core Arts Standards include:
1. Philosophical Foundations2. Lifelong Goals (= vision of Arts Literacy)3. 3+ Artistic Processes (CPR +)4. Enduring Understandings (paired with EQs)5. Connections
– Common Core (ELA, Math)– 21st Century Skills/College & Career Ready– Cross-Arts Connections
6. Opportunity-to-Learn Guidelines7. Model Cornerstone Assessments
– with Student Work
Organizational Structure:Framework Matrix
Music Standards Levels(reflecting differences among 4 “strands”)
Elementary Middle School High School
Beyond High
School
PK-2 3-5 6-8 +1 year +4 years +5 years or more
General Music
Novice Intermediate Proficient Accomplished Advanced
Ensembles
Harmonizing Instruments
Composition / Theory
Music Technology
New National Core Arts Standards envision students learning all 3 Artistic Processes in all classes
But the relative emphasis on each Process varies,depending on class type
Cornerstone Assessments
• Curriculum-embedded
• Engage students in applying their knowledge and skills in an authentic and relevant context
• Anchor the curriculum around the most important performances that we want learners to be able to do (on their own)
-- Jay McTighe (and Grant Wiggins)
2015 Music PrePiloting MCAs
Artistic Process Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8
Creating ♫ ♫ ♫
Performing ♫ ♫ ♫
Responding ♫
General Music
Artistic Process Novice Intermediate Proficient…
Performing ♫
Ensemble
MCA Characteristics• Focused on one Artistic Process
• Multiple Process Components
• Embedded in Unit
• Parallel across Grades/Levels
• Analytically Scored
MCA-Like Units fromCT Common Music Assessments
Artistic Process Grade 2 Grade 5 Grade 8
Creating Improvisation Composition Composition
PerformingSinging
Prompt
Singing
Prompt
Singing
Prompt
More at: www.CTcurriculum.org
Music MCALeadership Structure
• Fred Burrack (Kansas State University)
• A. Kelly Parkes (Virginia Tech)
• Team of Research Advisors
• Scott C. Shuler (National Standards Co-Chair)
• Glenn Nierman (NAfME President)
• Ching Ching Yap (past South Carolina arts assessment leader)
• Richard Wells (National Standards Co-Chair)
• David Weatherred (Spokane, WA Music Supervisor)
• Tim Brophy (University of Florida Assessment Guru)
Music MCA Development TimelineGrades 2, 5, 8, and EnsembleSTEP TIMING
1ST PUBLIC DRAFTS June 2014 (with standards)
Refinement June 2014 – February 20152ND PUBLIC DRAFTS Mid-February 2015
PrePiloting February – April 2015Revision April – August 2015
3RD PUBLIC DRAFTS September 2015Piloting September – December 2015Revision December 2015 – January 2016
Repiloting (as needed) February – May 2016Final Revisions and
Benchmarking Summer 2016
FINAL MCAS September 2016
How will we MANAGE nationwide piloting and benchmarking?
beta Site: dev.CTcurriculum.org(final name will be ShareAssessment.org circa May 2015)
Site enables Multiple Teachers/Piloters toUpload Student Work to Same Task
Manage Student Work and Scorers
Basic Statistical Analyses+ Export to Excel for Further Analysis
dev.CTcurriculum.org enables any user to:• Create standards-based units with embedded assessment tasks;• Upload and insert links to files in various formats, including video;• Make units public, private, or accessible only to designated users;• Assign others varied levels of permission (access) that allows them to –
– provide threaded feedback and suggestions for improvement;– participate in editing; and– upload student work to the task and enter their scores.
• Select benchmark (anchor) student work to illustrate levels of achievement on units/tasks;
• Assign work – specifically or randomly – to scorers for blind scoring, a crucial step in benchmarking and calibration processes;
• Manage groups of scorers, monitoring which have completed their assigned task and communicating with those who have not;
• Perform basic statistical analyses on scores and scorers, to identify outliers and determine inter-rater reliability; and
• Clone existing units/tasks and scoring scales for future use or editing.
Where can you findNational Core Music Standards
and PrePilot MCAs?
NAfME.org/Standards
Where can you find Conceptual Framework
andBackground Research?
www.NationalArtsStandards.org
Scott C. Shuler, Ph.D.Arts Education Specialist, CT SDE (ret.)Co-Chair, National Core Music StandardsPast-President, NAfME
[email protected]/in/ScShuler
(860) 325-ARTS
www.NationalArtsStandards.org NAfME.org/standards