

William Bauer’s book “Music Learning Today: Digital Pedagogy for Creating, Performing, and Responding to Music” music assessment and professional productivity. Technology can help with creating these kinds of tests to improve achievement in content learning areas. This information should be communicated to parents, administrators and other teachers to track results. Summative assessments are the overall result of the unit. This is to allow for the teacher to adapt their teaching methods to better achieve the learning outcome goals. Formative assessment involves formal and informal procedures that provide information to the teacher and feedback for the student during the learning process. It provides an accurate and appropriate indication of achievement which in turn means that it is reliable. A test is valid only when it aligns with the learning outcomes. The second step is to determine the assessment evidence that will show students have met those outcomes. The first step is to establish learning outcomes. It is recommended that teachers take two initial steps when developing learning experiences. “All teachers need to understand the basic principles of assessment, which may include assessment vocabulary, basic principles of assessment instrument design (instrument in this sense, refers to a written test or form used to collect data on student learning), standard grading procedures, and the calculation and interpretation of basic statistics such as the mean and standard deviation for a set of test scores” (pg. This enables you to better plan and design the next week's or next unit’s lesson. It is important to have formative and summative assessments so that you can check to make sure that weekly and overall content learning skills are being met. In the readings this week music assessment and professional productivity with technology was discussed.
