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Written Report on Roles Musicians Perform

Assessing the Nation Standards for Music Education From Performance Standards for Music - Strategies and Benchmarks for Assessing Progress toward the national Standards
	Content Standard		Understanding music in relation to history and culture
	Achievement Standard 9c.		Students identify various roles that musicians perform, cite representative individuals who have functioned in each role, and describe their activities and achievements.
	Assessment Strategy		The student is asked to prepare a brief report on three important and representative roles musicians may perform in a given society (e.g., Contemporary Western society, Europe under the patronage system of the eighteenth century, a society outside the Western tradidion). In contemporary society, for example, the roles might include school teacher, private teacher, conductor or performer with a symphony orchestra or community band, church organist or choir director, fold musician, radio or television entertainer, composer of pop music or television commertials, dance band performer, rock performer, intrument maker or repairer, music therapist, musicstore manager, music editor or publisher. For each role the student should answer these questions: How is the craft learned? What education or training is required? How is continuing education provided? What sort of carreer ladder is available? For whome is the service provided? How do prospective employers identify and choose among prospective providers of the service? How is the service paid for? What market exisats for the service and what are its limitations? How is success measured?

Assessment Rubric
Basic Level:	Proficient Level:	Advanced Level:
The student can identify three roles and provide some basic and essentially correct information about each.	The student can identify three roles and provide accurate and detailed information about each. Not every question is answered fully, but the student reveals a broad understanding of the topic.	The student can identify three roles and provide accurate and comprehensive information about each. Each of the relevant questions is answered fully, nad tyhe student reveals a high level of understanding of the topic.

 

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