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ACA Week: Rob Horowitz on Resolving Dissonance in the Improvisatory Rhythm of School Collaborations

Hi, I’m Rob Horowitz. I do research, evaluation and consulting, primarily in arts education. Maybe it’s because I’m a musician, but I often think of dissonance and consonance in my work. You can hear the beats of dissonance, if you carefully listen to the overtones of any group of tones. Dissonance in music provides tension …

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ACA Week: Steven Holochwost on Hierarchical Modeling to Accommodate Nested Data Structures

My name is Steven Holochwost, and for the last 8 years I have worked for WolfBrown, an arts and cultural research and management consultancy. In my role as Senior Researcher, I help design and implement evaluations of arts education programs for children. Lessons Learned: I imagine that the circumstances of my work are similar to …

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ACA Week: Timothy S. Brophy on Using IRT in the Analysis of Multidimensional Arts Assessment Data

Hi, I am Timothy S. Brophy, professor of music education and Director of Institutional Assessment at the University of Florida in Gainesville, where I manage the assessment of over 500 assessment units at the university. As a music educator and an evaluator, I am interested in exploring the fundamental measurement issues related to the assessment …

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ACA Week: Don Glass on Improving the Work of Educators and Students with Educative Assessment

Hi. I am Don Glass, the Co-Chair of the Arts, Culture, and Audiences TIG, and curator of ACA week on AEA365. In several of my recent arts education evaluations, building assessment capacity through the design of local tasks, rubrics, and scoring procedures have been at the center of my technical assistance and program recommendations. Good …

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ACA Week: Susanne Harnett on Designing Benchmark Arts Assessments

Hi, I am Susanne Harnett, evaluator for the Arts Achieve project in New York City (NYC), which is funded through two US DOE i3 and AEMDD grants. Arts Achieve involves a partnership between the NYC Department of Education and five arts organizations based in NYC. Arts Achieve seeks to improve student arts achievement through the …

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ACA Week: Patricia Moore Shaffer on Assessments for Student Learning in the Arts

Welcome to Arts, Culture, and Audiences Topical Interest Group (ACA TIG) week with a focus on evaluating arts education! My name is Patricia Moore Shaffer of the Shaffer Evaluation Group. I am a former arts educator turned evaluator. As educators and policymakers look for alternatives to standardized, multiple-choice tests, I’m delighted to see a growing …

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