Music Assessment across Cultures and Continents/G8025

What are the purposes of music education assessment? What are the best strategies and techniques? How does assessment improve music teaching and learning? What are the shared research priorities for music education assessment? And how are these questions answered in the context of the world s cultures and continents?

To address these questions, 139 assessment scholars, researchers, music administrators, students, and practicing music educators representing six continents and seventeen nations convened on March 8 11, 2011 on the campus of the University of Bremen in Bremen, Germany.

The 34 papers published in this volume address assessment in national, state, and regional contexts as well as in district, school and classroom contexts. There is also a wealth of information about assessment in higher education and music teacher education.

Together, the papers presented in this book provide a representation of where we are in music assessment at this time in the history of our profession. Readers of the first two volumes of proceedings from these events will agree that we still have much to do, but will also agree that we are coming to terms with assessment in our field at an increasing level of sophistication.