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Musical skills, or attitude and dress style? Meaning-making when assessing admission tests for Swedish specialist music teacher education by Ragnhild Sandberg-Jurström; Monica Lindgren; Olle Zandén is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
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Although entrance test criteria seem decisive for accessing higher music education programmes, and problems and challenges with the assessment process are reported, the area is largely unexplored. This article concerns how entrance auditions, specifically primary instrument auditions for Swedish specialist music teacher programmes, are examined and discussed. The data comprise video-documented auditions, focus group conversations, and stimulated-recall-based interviews involving assessor groups at four music education departments. Social-semiotic theory is used to study how assessors judge applicants' knowledge representations in audition performances. A music-centred assessment culture is constructed, emphasising assessments of technical, communicative, and genre-anchored interpretation skills essential for meeting the demands of the education and profession. Also, a person-centred assessment culture is revealed, emphasising the assessment of personal traits suitable for education and profession. The discussion addresses the reliability, credibility, and validity of assessing abilities in terms of being and behaving in a particular way.
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- Author
- Ragnhild Sandberg-Jurström; Monica Lindgren; Olle Zandén
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)
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