GIA Music Education Catalog ? 2011 - GIA Publications
GIA Music Education Catalog ? 2011 - GIA Publications
GIA Music Education Catalog ? 2011 - GIA Publications
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General Interest New Releases<br />
A Concise Guide to<br />
Assessing Skill and<br />
Knowledge<br />
With <strong>Music</strong> Achievement as a Model<br />
Darrel Walters<br />
This concise guide offers extensive information<br />
about creating, administering, scoring, and<br />
interpreting quantitative assessment measures across many<br />
formats, with emphasis on performance rating scales, multiplechoice<br />
tests, and essay tests. Included also are foundational<br />
components of quantitative assessment, key statistical tools, and a guide to basic<br />
analysis by use of Microsoft Excel®. Emphasis is on the underlying principle of using<br />
assessment tools to improve instruction, with an important component being the<br />
improvement of communication between instructor and students.<br />
Included with this book is a CD-Rom containing 15 PowerPoint sessions for<br />
classroom use and home study, with corresponding narrations and slide-advance cues<br />
in an appendix. Also on the disc is a series of sample instrumental performances by<br />
elementary students for practice in using rating scales.<br />
G-7883 Perfect-bound, 258 pages, with CD-Rom ......................$34.95<br />
Possible Impossibilities<br />
in Undergraduate<br />
<strong>Music</strong> <strong>Education</strong><br />
Edwin E. Gordon<br />
In this engaging and heartfelt book, Dr. Edwin E.<br />
Gordon calls for a comprehensive revitalization of<br />
music education programs at colleges and universities in the<br />
U.S. and around the world.<br />
Drawing from a lifetime of experience training our future<br />
music teachers, Dr. Gordon believes passionately that we need to<br />
significantly modify how we teach undergraduates if we truly hope<br />
to keep the school music education profession vital and relevant.<br />
Covering topics as diverse as student teaching, course content, early childhood<br />
music, instrumental music, measurement and evaluation, student teaching, music<br />
literacy, rating scales, and more, this book is sure to engage anyone passionate about the<br />
discipline of music education.<br />
G-7848 Perfect-bound, 238 pages ..................................$15.95<br />
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