Saturday, April 20, 2013

Testing Like a Real Subject

This year, my county required me to have a formal assessment for each grade level. Kindergarten and 1st did aural assessments as a group, but I made grades 2-5 take an actual written test. Each grade took the test within the first 6-weeks of school, at the 18-week mark and again last week as their final assessment.

Instruments laid out for Kinders identification of instruments by sight and sound.



So many papers!

I don't know which was worse: making these tests, grading these tests, or sitting quietly for a whole period while the students took the tests! I am definitely not a sit still and quiet kind of person. That is for sure.

BONUS: April is the Modern Period! Time to learn a bit about Prokofiev, Sousa and Joplin!

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  1. Mrs. QApril 21, 2013 at 12:12 PM

    It's interesting to see how you are doing testing. Our county is moving to testing soon. All arts classes k-12 will be required to administer a standardized test. We haven't heard what format the test will be in or what content it will test the kids on, so everyone is a bit apprehensive of the unknown.

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  2. Mrs. MuratoreApril 23, 2013 at 8:55 PM

    I had to completely make everything up from scratch. I literally cut and paste from various worksheet and textbook assessments to create a test for each grade. It was difficult to fit a years worth of music knowledge into one page. I wasn't told that it had to be one page, but considering I had to make 500 copies of each test three times within the year, I figured I should limit it to as few pages as possible.

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