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SUMMARY:Evaluating music creativity through an assessment rubric - Diana B
 lom\, Ian Stevenson and John Encarnacao
DTSTART:20131024T153000Z
DTEND:20131024T170000Z
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CONTACT:Ewa Illakowicz
DESCRIPTION:When a university puts in place\, across all disciplines\, a n
 ew assessment model\, this is done with notions of fairness in mind.  Each
  discipline is required to make the model work for the assessment purposes
 .  This seminar discusses our use of assessment rubrics in music performan
 ce and sound technology in a B. Music program\, all focusing on creative o
 utcomes – 2nd year group rehearsal process\, 3rd year solo performance o
 utcome\, 2nd year electro-acoustic sound work using Max/MSP and one or mor
 e musical control devices\, a 1st year group Sound Stereo Recording.   Whi
 le we focus on our experiences\, rather than that of the students\, from o
 ur rubric designing and use of the rubric as an evaluating tool we find it
  plays several roles – pedagogical\; offering more readily understood nu
 merical results for students\; aiding the defensibility of decisions made 
 by assessors with respect to those results within a framework of responsib
 ility and accountability\; marking efficiency\; streamlining integration o
 f multiple assessors engaged in a single assessment task\; marking fairnes
 s\; peer and self-assessment\; and\, through constant tweaking of the rubr
 ics\, keeping it highly relevant.  Some of these marry with experiences de
 scribe in the literature while others add further to the argument for such
  an assessment approach. \n\nDiana Blom\, Ian Stevenson and John Encarnaca
 o teach into the B. Music program at the University of Western Sydney.  Di
 ana Blom is Associate Professor in music in the School of Humanities and C
 ommunication Arts\, University of Western Sydney.  Research interests focu
 s around tertiary music education – interpretation\, collaboration\, ass
 essment – and practice-led research drawn from composing and performing.
  She plays harpsichord and piano in a chamber trio\, ‘Three in a Boat’
 \, which performs contemporary classical repertoire for voice\, cello and 
 piano.    As a composer\, she has several works and performances released 
 on CD.    Music Composition Toolbox\, a composition textbook co-authored b
 y Matthew Hindson and Damian Barbeler is published by Science Press.  \n\n
 Ian Stevenson is music course advisor and coordinator of sound technologie
 s in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at UWS. He has worked
  as an artist\, engineer\, sound designer and production supervisor in gal
 leries\, theatre\, live music\, broadcast and post-production in Australia
 \, Europe and the UK. His research interests are in sonic communication\, 
 and new musical interfaces. \n\nJohn Encarnacao is a performer\, composer 
 and educator\, and has taught music analysis\, music performance and compo
 sition at the University of Western Sydney since 2004. His first book\, Pu
 nk Aesthetics and New Folk: Way Down The Old Plank Road\, will be publishe
 d by Ashgate in September 2013. Notable recent projects include the compos
 ition of the score for Alana Valentine’s play Tinderbox\, recorded by hi
 s trio Espadrille\, and Spider and Lamb (2011)\, the third album by his so
 ng-oriented project\, Warmer. April will see the release of the debut albu
 m of new rock group The Nature Strip. John has also just completed Tarantu
 la Variations for viola and piano\, commissioned by Diana Blom and Dawn Be
 nnett. \nContact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, DMB
 \, Room GS5
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