Assessment and pedagogy
Booth, Nikki and Fautley, Martin (2025) Assessment and pedagogy. In: Debates in Music Teaching. Routledge, London, pp. 197-210. ISBN 9781003439578
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Abstract
Assessment is complex, multifaceted, and a hotly debated topic within educational discourse. It covers a wide variety of uses and purposes ranging from external examinations (for example, in the United Kingdom, GCSEs and A-Levels) to lesson-by-lesson, even minute-by-minute, assessments.
This chapter focuses on assessment that takes place within the music classroom. Specifically, it presents some of the issues and debates concerning teachers’ understanding and application of both formative and summative modalities of assessment as well as validity and the threats to making valid conclusions regarding pupils’ musical learning. These foci are among the important aspects of contemporary policy and classroom imperatives. This chapter is concerned with showing that there is no simple linearity to assessment, but that there exists (re)thinking and practice that can be considered to be of use to music teachers in developing and strengthening their current assessment and pedagogical practices.
It concludes that assessment should be valued as a means both to improve student learning and guide teaching. Seeing assessment in more nuanced terms, as is done in this chapter, offers the potential to open up opportunities as to how assessment and pedagogical practices in the music classroom can be further, and deeper, understood. This is important not only so that assessment can be used as a faithful servant to better meet the needs of our musicians, but also to further support music teachers in their day-to-day practices.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Identification Number: | 10.4324/9781003439578-17 |
| Dates: | Date Event 1 August 2025 Published Online |
| Subjects: | CAH22 - education and teaching > CAH22-01 - education and teaching > CAH22-01-01 - education CAH22 - education and teaching > CAH22-01 - education and teaching > CAH22-01-02 - teacher training |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences > College of Education and Social Work |
| Depositing User: | Gemma Tonks |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jul 2025 13:48 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Jul 2025 13:48 |
| URI: | https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/16462 |
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