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Assessment Rubric for National Standards for Music Education, Achievement Standard 1b
Assessment Strategy

Each semester, the student's individual performance is tape recorded during rehearsals of unaccompanied works in four to eight parts. The works may vary in level of difficulty from 3 to 5. Each work has beeen rehearsed previously. The Strategy should be repeated with accompanied works.

Basic Level
Proficient Level
Advanced Level
1. In performing music with a difficulty level of 3, the student can sing the correct pitches and rhythms, maintain a steady beat, and sing with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and expression. In more difficult music, there are occasional errors in reading notes, the beat is sometimes unsteady, and at times there is a lack of attention to dynamics, phrasing, and expression. 1. In performing music with a difficulty level of 4, the student can sing the correct pitches and rhythms, maintain a steady beat, and sing with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and expression. In more difficult music, there are occasional errors in reading notes, the beat is sometimes unsteady, and at times there is a lack of attention to dynamics, phrasing, and expression. 1. In performing music with a difficulty level of 5, the student can sing the correct pitches and rhythms, maintain a steady beat, and sing with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and expression.
2. In performing music with a difficulty level of 3, the student is able to maintain his or her part in four-part music. In more difficult music or music with more than four parts, he or she loses the place occasionally 2. In performing music with a difficulty level of 4, the student is able to maintain his or her part in four-part music. In more difficult music or music with more than four parts, he or she loses the place occasionally 2. In performing music with a difficulty level of 5, the student is able to maintain his or her part in four-part music. In performing music with a level of difficulty of 4, the student is able to maintain his or her part in eight-part music.

 

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