This book discusses assessment and its role in teaching and learning music in the classroom. For improving learning and raising standards, it puts the case for formative assessment, day-by-day, rather than summative assessment at the end of key stages. The advice is relevant to classroom and instrumental teachers, and the academic community.

1 Introduction to assessment in music education
2 Clarifying terminologies: uses and purposes of assessment
3 Reliability and validity
4 Evidencing achievement
5 Learning and knowledge in classroom music
6 Why assess?
7 7. Progression, development, and assessment
8 Quality, values, and the affective domain
9 Developing appropriate criteria for assessment
10 Developing classroom performing by the use of assessment
11 Developing classroom composing through assessment
12 Developing listening through assessment
13 Developing classroom improvising by the use of assessment
14 Assessment and ICT in music education
15 The role of baseline assessment
16 Putting it together: holistic approaches to learning and assessment in music
17 The way forwards: new developments in assessment