The Practice of Assessment in Music Education:
Frameworks, Models, and Designs
The Second International Symposium on Assessment in Music Education
University of Florida School of Music
Paramount Plaza Hotel and Suites
Gainesville, Florida
April 9-11, 2009
Timothy S. Brophy, Organizing Chair

The music education faculty of the University of Florida School of Music will host a Symposium on Assessment in Music Education from April 9-11. 2009, at the Paramount Plaza Hotel and Suites in Gainesville, Florida. This symposium will focus on identifying and exploring effective assessment frameworks, models, and designs for the assessment of preK-12 and post-secondary music students and music programs.

Keynote Speakers: Dr. David Elliott, Dr. Edwin Gordon

Key Questions. This symposium will focus upon the following key questions:

1. What are the effective frameworks, models, and designs for assessing student music learning in music classrooms?

2.        What are the effective frameworks, models, and designs for the large-scale assessment of student music learning?

3.        What are the effective frameworks, models, and designs for assessing music programs?

4.        In what ways are music educators using assessment data effectively to improve music teaching and learning?

Call for Papers. We seek full length session papers, poster session abstracts, and assessment strategy presentations that address the symposium theme and key questions, including but not limited to:

·          Current philosophical and theoretical foundations for assessment in music education

·          The purposes of assessment in the music curriculum

·          The relationship between curriculum and assessment development and practice in music education

·          Assessment in music teacher education, including the assessment of preservice teachers, and teaching preservice teachers to assess preK-12 students

·          Effective assessment practices, and issues related to the daily practice of music assessment for K-12 music teachers

·          The effective uses of music assessment data to facilitate student learning and teacher development

·          The role of technology in facilitating music assessment

·          Current research and collaborative efforts in music assessment

·          Local, state, and national music assessment initiatives

Details of the submission process and registration will be available at http://conferences.dce.ufl.edu./ISAME.after June 1, 2008. Submissions are due by October 1, 2008. Proposals can be considered for session presentation or the Symposium poster session. All submissions will be reviewed by an expert panel of prominent music educators, and notifications will be completed by November 15, 2008. Early submissions are encouraged.