An Investigation of Musical Achievement Among Vocal Students, Vocal-Instrumental Students, and Instrumental Students
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10201191 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Colwell (0009-0004-0006-1812, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1963 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 123-130 |
| Publication date | 1963-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Research in Music Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4294 • E-ISSN: 1945-0095 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3344151 |
| OpenAlex | W2029526836 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
IN THE EVER-INCREASING BODY of literature pertaining to music education, the area of evaluation has been strangely neglected. Most current texts, though they discuss aptitude and achievement tests, do not discuss evaluation as such or attempt to relate the use of aptitude and achievement tests to an evaluation of the music program. Since evaluation provides a means for determining the worth of the entire music program, as Leonhard and House point out, it is surprising that so little attention is given to it.l There is a growing awareness of the need for sound objectives for music programs yet the fact is that objectives are largely useless without a process of evaluation to determine whether the objectives are being achieved, and to svhat degree they are being achieved. This report describes an investigation of relative achievement among students in the three primary phases of public school music: vocal, instrumental, and a combination of the two.2 The study did not concern the acquiring of factual knowledge, which is easily measurable by any number of printed tests, but rather achievement in the
Achievement test · Acoustics · Aptitude · Developmental psychology · Instrumental music · Mathematics education · Music education · Musical · Pedagogy · Perception · Point (geometry · Singing · Standardized test · Visual arts · Vocal music · Diverse Music Education Insights · Music · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1986 - 2001 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |