Active embedded assessments that are fair to students and manageable for you
If assessments feel..
Unmusical
Isolated from your regular activities
Anxiety producing - for you and your students
Overwhelming
Let’s reimagine assessments.
In this course on active and embedded assessment, we’ll learn..
How to write active assessments so we don’t stop doing music when it comes time to assess
How to assess with intention and make assessments a naturally embedded part of your year.
How to document assessment scores so they are both fair to students and manageable for you.
What’s Inside the Course
Module 1: Getting Started with Active Embedded Assessments
Reframing assessment myths
Here’s a look at the first lesson video
Module 2: Active Assessments
How to Make Assessments Feel Like Play
The context for deep musical learning
How musical skills and the national core arts standards work hand-in-hand
Active and Authentic Assessment (Why we don’t have to stop everything to assess)
Making assessments fair to students through validity
Module 3: Embedded Assessment
How to seamlessly weave assessments into your music plans
How long-range plans provide clarity and integrity to our assessments
How to make specific, measurable, and musical assessment lesson objectives
The three questions to turn any activity into an assessment
Module 4: Measurement Tools & Data Tracking
Practical ways to document and track student progress so we can celebrate students’ musicianship
Types of rubrics that serve students best
How to construct powerful rubrics through reliability
How to manage data collection in an active embedded context
Make data tracking manageable
Other types of data (because numbers are limited)
Module 4: Making an Assessment Plan
Start assessing meaningfully and musically tomorrow
Choose your own adventure level, and know that each movement toward active embedded assessment is valuable and meaningful for your students
Module 6: Bonus Q&A
Your assessment questions answered
Maintaining curiosity and scholarship while we explore real life assessment questions
