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Critical Discernment Of Quality In Singing: An Approach To Encouraging Self-Regulated Singers Through Peer Assessment, Lotte Latukefu

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

In 2008, as part of the ongoing development of a learning model for singing using sociocultural theories, peer assessment was introduced into the singing component of a tertiary level, undergraduate, creative arts performance course. The purpose of this exercise was to encourage students to become self-regulated learners capable of continuing with their learning after graduation. Falchikov (2007) has argued that peer involvement in assessment has the potential to encourage learning and develop assessment skills that will last a lifetime. The project investigated what effect changing the role of the actor/singer in an assessment has on the group and also the …