Research and Evaluation Committee
Tennessee Music Educators Association
Evaluation and Testing in Music Education
Sources of tests
For a list of music tests, go to the same site and click on Test Locator. This one of the more interesting features. It connects to the Educational Testing Service. Type in "music." One of the 50 descriptions you will see is a screening questionnaire for punk rock delinquents! You may go to the locator directly from this site by CLICKING HERE.
The publisher of a particular test may be found the same way--by going to the Buros site and clicking on "test publisher."
(2) The primary publisher of achievement
and aptitude tests in music education at this time is GIA Publications,
Inc. They have a website, but it does not list all their tests. For a complete
catalog, call 1-800-GIA-1358. CLICK HERE
for the GIA, Inc. site. They have a descriptions of two tests, The
Primary Measures of Music Audiation (K-Gr 3) and Intermediate Measures
of Music Audiation (Gr 1- Gr 6), on their site. CLICK
HERE for descriptions. They also have a Music Teacher Self-Assessment,
a video and book for professional development. It has not been reviewed
by the site manager. CLICK
HERE for Self-Assessment.
(3) Finding information about psychological tests: frequently asked questions. An excellent site compiled by the American Psychology Association. CLICK HERE for questions and answers.
(4) The Council for Research in Music Education maintains a file of
hard-to-get tests, mostly used for research. CLICK
HERE.
(2) Standards for teacher competence in educational
assessment of students. What teachers ought to understand and
know about tests and assessment, a statement by the National Educational
Association, the National Council on Measurement in Education, and the
American Federation of Teachers. CLICK
HERE for teacher standards.
The Music Assessment Web Site is operated by Professor Ed Asmus at the University of Utah. It has an important links section.
(2) Full-text papers on evaluation and accountability in the ERIC Clearinghouse. This is the latest on the big issues, and its free. CLICK HERE.
(3) ERIC also provides online texts on "how-to" issues and a list of the top ten titles in assessment and accountability in its full text library (downloadable). Many of these works are issue-related and stand at the forefront of testing and evaluation.
(4) Rubrics
is a site operated by Professor Ed Asmus at the University of Utah that
is helpful in understanding how we adjudicate and rate the work of music
students. CLICK
HERE.