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Tag Archives: progress
Average progress in classroom music? Hmm!
There has been a lot of social media chatter in England recently about Progress 8 data scores, which have been published. This is rather complex to explain for an international audience, but, essentially, Progress 8 is secondary school accountability measure: … Continue reading
In which I get ratty about progress and progression in music education – yet again!
I’ve been thinking a lot again about these three words recently: Progress Progression Continuation This has been particularly the case as I’ve been looking into Arts Council England data on WCET (Whole Class Ensemble Tuition), where the notion of continuation … Continue reading
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Progress and Intervals
I’ve been thinking a lot about progress again recently. Despite the best intentions of ‘assessment without levels’, progress is still firmly one of the things being looked at. I was thinking about progress whilst having a coffee in the sitting … Continue reading
Bullseye! Target setting and target missing.
Or, a blog in which I get to say “Errr?” rather a lot! Target setting is currently back at number one as the biggest cause of concern that I am hearing about from music teachers. Now, I am going to … Continue reading
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Tagged assessment, Curriculum, progress, Teaching
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Tracking thoughts inspired by railway tracks on a train journey
I’m always concerned by how much duplication of effort there has been in music education from teachers up and down the land over the years. What is worrying me at the moment is that there seems to be a move … Continue reading
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Tagged assessment, attainment, flightpaths, Linear, Music Education, progress, tracking
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Poster at ISME
I’ve been a bit on the busy side recently, which is, in many ways, an understatement! Anyway, last week I was up in Glasgow for the International Society of Music Education (ISME) conference. Whilst there I gave four spoken presentations, and … Continue reading
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Assessment and Coffee
Those nice people over at MusicMark have made available a piece I wrote for secondary school music teachers wherein I reflect on one of the common issues with assessment I am asked about, that of progression. In it I respond … Continue reading
On linear progress and spiral curricula
This blog should be referenced in part to a conversation I had with one of my doctoral students, Anthony Anderson, in a supervision recently. Something he said made me have one of those random, wild, thoughts concerning the difficulties of … Continue reading
Proof, and meta-proof
One of the really big issues in assessment seems to me to be ‘doing’ assessment, then proving you’ve done assessment, then proving you’ve proved that you’ve done assessment! All of which seems to be to satisfy the system needs of … Continue reading
Tracking and Assessment in Music Education
When considering assessment, it is customary in academic circles to try to be precise concerning the uses and purposes of assessment. Sadly, this task is a mammoth one, and there is considerable terminology slippage, not only from research to practice, … Continue reading
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