My OpenLearn Profile
Personalise your OpenLearn profile, save your favourite content and get recognition for your learning
Assessment in secondary music
This free course, Assessment in secondary music, will identify and explore some of the key issues around assessing music in secondary schools. Through coming to understand these issues and debates, you will reflect on and develop your assessment practice as a music teacher and develop a greater awareness of the implications of assessment practice on pedagogy and what is considered to be of musical value in music education.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- recognise the purposes and forms of assessment and their application in, and implications for, music education
- understand what to assess in music education
- promote assessment for learning in music education
- understand how to use assessment to plan for further learning.
First Published: 29/03/2016
Updated: 22/06/2016
Rate and Review
Create an account to get more
Track your progress
Review and track your learning through your OpenLearn Profile.
Statement of Participation
On completion of a course you will earn a Statement of Participation.
Access all course activities
Take course quizzes and access all learning.
Review the course
When you have finished a course leave a review and tell others what you think.