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Comparison Of Middle School Band Student Self-Assessment And Individual Adjudicated Assessment To Large Group Adjudicated Performance Assessment, Jonathan Carl Grimsby

Theses and Dissertations

This quantitative study was conducted over a six week concert cycle in which data was collected from a 52-member, 8th grade band class. A sub group of 21 individual students within the ensemble participated in student self-evaluations and individual recordings of a standard band composition, Dialogues for Winds and Percussion by Michael Sweeney. The individual recordings and group recordings were sent to an adjudicator for scoring. The scores from the self-evaluations, individual recordings and group recordings were compared to investigate the relationships between (a) student self-evaluation of abilities in relation to individual adjudicated score, (b) student self-evaluation of abilities in …