MUE 340 - Assessment & Evaluation in Music Education

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: MUE 231. Students will learn how to use standardized music aptitude batteries, timbre preference tests, and teacher-made performance rating scales. Students will become familiar with published music achievement tests, and with rubrics used for group and individual assessments in National and Florida Music Education Regional and State competitions. Students will learn basic psychometric concepts related to validity, reliability, error, traditional and authentic measurement tools, criterion referenced, normative referenced, and idiographic referenced tests, and the interpretation of test results. Students will explore current accountability and testing issues in American public Education. (SP)