This book provides music educators with a reader-friendly introduction to key terminology and concepts relevant to classroom assessment in the real-world context of local curriculum. Teachers will find its apt metaphors and analogies, useful lists, and scaffolded tools very helpful when designing and evaluating instructional outcomes.
Brian Shaw teaches music education at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Bloomington. An award-winning music teacher and administrator, he has led workshops and given presentations on assessment across the country. He studied music education at Indiana University, the University of Illinois, and Ohio State, and educational administration at DePaul University.