Tambourines and Technology

In August, I had the pleasure to visit the Google Headquarters in downtown Chicago as part of the CPS Googlepalooza  conference.  Google fle...

After a series of ten (ten?!) posts regarding Standards Based Learning and Performance Assessment in the music classroom, I put together a ...

What is the biggest obstacle in musical performance assessment? Recording student performances. How to record? When to listen? Who listens...

All of the blogs I have been writing about standards-based learning over the last several weeks have brought me to this point.  Taking all o...

We are really getting into the nitty-gritty of performance assessment in the arts now.  But this is the point where it could be most effecti...

In my previous post , I wrote four questions for designing performance music assessments: 1.  What does quality look like? 2.  What does q...

In my initial post in this series ( here ), I wrote that contest ballots are not helpful rubrics for students. They are written for adjudica...