Current Institution: University of Tasmania
Fellowship: ALTC Teaching Fellowship at University of Tasmania
Fellowship Duration: 2008 - 2010
This Fellowship builds upon Heather’s 2007 UTAS Teaching Fellowship. Having audited current music assessment procedures nationally, this project establishes a process whereby performance teaching practices can be reshaped to support an effective learning environment: where feedback aligns to the expectations of what is being assessed; where study results in valued graduate attributes.?
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In this environment staff and students have meaningful descriptions of the purpose of assessment/learning tasks, performance standards and assessment criteria, grade descriptors, and transparency regarding the school’s formative, ongoing and eventual expectations.
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Interviews and group discussions will be conducted with staff and students, related arts focus groups, and with a national discipline-specific focus group established earlier.? Feedback from the professional sector will also be sought: this project features interviews from musicians working in Australian orchestras, chamber ensembles and freelance professionals.? Through the Exchange a national online repository of case study narratives is to be established.
Disciplines: Practical Music Performance Assessment, Practices / Processes
The Australian Learning and Teaching Fellows’ network (ALTF) was established in 2011 with support from the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching. The network comprises over 100 scholars who are well placed geographically, institutionally and within their discipline communities to promote and sustain effective learning and teaching in Australian higher education, now and into the future.
The Australian Learning and Teaching Fellows’ network (ALTF) was established in 2011 with support from the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching. The network comprises over 100 scholars who are well placed geographically, institutionally and within their discipline communities to promote and sustain effective learning and teaching in Australian higher education, now and into the future.