ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to describe the processes by which music educators can develop student-learning outcomes at the course or unit level, align assessment tasks with stated outcomes, and create scoring devices to collect data in order to provide detailed, timely, and meaningful feedback and analysis for both students and educators. Topics of the chapter include a review of common educational taxonomies and related frameworks, crafting learning objectives, preplanning assessment processes, developing assessment blueprints and tables of specifications, defining learning outcomes, and selecting appropriate item-types.
