! ERASMUS'Network'for'Music'' Polifonia ' ' WG1'Assessment'&'Standards/INVITE'Joint ! Seminar'‘Enhancing'standards'for'assessment' through'effecGve'pracGce’'
! Assessment'and'Standards'in'' Higher'Music'EducaGon ! ! Ester'TomasiPFumics ! !
Members'of'the'Working'Group' • Ester!Tomasi4Fumics!(Chair):!University!of!Music!&!Performing!Arts!Vienna,! Austria! Hannah!Hebert:!AssociaDon!Européenne!des!Conservatoires,!The! • Netherlands!! Jörg!Linowitzki:!Musikhochschule!Lübeck,!Germany! • Jacques!Moreau:!Cefedem!Rhone4Alpes,!Lyon,!France! • Mary!Lennon:!DIT4!Conservatory!of!Music!and!Drama,!Dublin,!Ireland! • Jan!Rademakers:!Maastricht!Academy!of!Music,!The!Netherlands! • Sandra!Barroso:!Escola!Superior!de!Música!de!Lisboa,!Portugal!! • Gary!McPherson:!Melbourne!Conservatorium!of!Music,!Australia! • Peder!Hofmann:!Kungliga!Musikhögskolan!i!Stockholm,!Sweden!! •
StarDng!point! • AEC!Learning!outcomes!3!cycles!HME!(LOs)!! • Polifonia/Dublin!Descriptors!(PDD)! • EQF!HUMART! • Assessment!Handbook,!Cox,!J.!
Leading!quesDons! We!have!shared!standards!in!Higher!Music! EducaDon!in!Europe!represented!by!LOs!and! PDD:!! • Could!they!serve!as!quality!statements!related!to! assessment!in!HME?! • Are!they!assessable!as!they!are?! • Do!we!share!standards!in!assessment!to!assure!that! assessment!is!secure,!consistent!and!fair!and!leads!to! comparable!results?!
Working'plan' • gain!an! overview !of!the!current!situaDon!in! assessment!in!Higher!Music!EducaDon!in! Europe! • derive! shared'standards' for!assessment!from! the!project!findings! • discuss'and'elaborate' these!standards!within! the!community!of!Higher!Music!EducaDon! InsDtuDons!in!Europe!and!beyond.!
AcGons' • Europe4wide!survey!examining!exisDng! assessment!methods!and!procedures! • Mapping/benchmarking!to!strengthen!a! shared!understanding!of!standards! • 2!seminars!for!(potenDal)!external!examiners! • Set4up!European4level!register!of!External! Examiners!
Survey'of'assessment'methods'and' procedures'in'HME' • AEC!member!insDtuDons!+! • Final!assessment!at!Bachelor!or!Master!level! • Outcome!based! • Criteria! • Grading! • Assessors! • Feedback! • Strengths!and!weaknesses!
Some!preliminary!results! • 27!answers!(7!non4European)!! • 77%!assessment!based!on!learning!outcomes! (50%!AEC!LOs)! • 78%!assessment!training! • 52%!wrimen!assessment!criteria!! • 100%!student!feedback!(59%!orally)! • 85%!panel!assessment! • 45%!external!examiners!(mostly!from!HEI)!
Core'Principles'for'Assessment'in' Higher'Music'EducaGon' • The!assessment!pracDces!should!guide!and! encourage!effecDve!approaches!to!learning,!that! are!appropriate!to!what!is!expected!at!each!level! of!musical!development.!! • The!assessment!should!be!valid!and!reliable.!! • The!assessment!pracDces!should!define!and! protect!academic!music!standards.!! • The!assessment!pracDces!should!exemplify!and! be!consistent!with!the!mission!of!the!music! insDtuDon!and!more!broadly!the!profession.!!
Current!Issues! • Shared!standards!for!assessment! – What!are!these?! • The!level!within!the!AEC!learning!outcomes!! • Grading!criteria! • How!to!calibrate/benchmark?! – Consensus!moderaDon?!
European'Register'of'External' Examiners' • What!for?! – pool!to!assist!AEC!members!to!find!suitable! external!examiners! – external!moderaDon!and!calibraDon! • Work!to!do!on! – criteria! – data!collecDon!
Seminars' • Consensus!moderaDon!on!a!European!level! • 1 st !seminar!co4operaDon!with!INVITE! • 2 nd !seminar!open!for!(potenDal)!external! examiners! !
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