Author : Martha W. Springstead
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Book Synopsis The Use of Student Self-assessment of Sight Singing in a High School Choral Music Classroom by : Martha W. Springstead
Download or read book The Use of Student Self-assessment of Sight Singing in a High School Choral Music Classroom written by Martha W. Springstead and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this research was to examine methods of sight singing assessment in the high school choral classroom, and to develop and test a tool for student self-assessment of sight singing skills for use in high school choral classes. Problems associated with this study included designing a method for students in a high school choral class to predict and assess their individual abilities in sight singing; to investigate the extent to which students in a high school choral class can detect their own errors and therefore self-correct errors made while sight singing; to determine the reliability between the students’ predictions of their abilities and their actual performance of sight singing exercises; and to prepare students, through the self-assessment process, to successfully sight sing music equivalent to the examples used in the All-Virginia Chorus auditions. The study included the participation of 24 students in a select high school choir who voluntarily participated in four vocal recording sessions. Students were given a sight singing exercise of four measures and asked to predict on a rating scale of 1-5, how well they thought they would be able to sing it. They circled their rating, and recorded the example, rating from 1-5 how well they thought they had sung it. They listened to their recording and circled the errors. Exercises were presented in four separate recording sessions, each exercise increasing in difficulty until they were equivalent in difficulty to exercises used in the All-Virginia Chorus auditions. Data were reviewed by a panel of two high school choral directors. The analysis supports both the hypotheses that: 1. The student can accurately predict their performance before sight singing an exercise. 2. The student can accurately assess their performance after sight singing the exercise. Following all four recording sessions, the tapes were reviewed by the instructor and also by a panel of two independent assessors. The analysis of the data associated with the four recording sessions confirms both hypotheses. The ability of the students to accurately predict their post test score was positively confirmed by the second analysis. Eighty of the possible eighty-six assessor scores were the same or higher than the students—93%. Only six of the 86 (7%) were assessed as lower than predicted by the student.