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Historically informed performance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The historically informed performance, period performance, or authentic performance movement is an approach by musicians and scholars to research and perform works of classical music in ways similar to how they may have been performed when they were originally written. In a French overture, it is often held that dotted notation was meant to indicate double dotting; that is, a duration ratio of 7 to 1 instead of 3 to 1. First, the lower volume of authentic performance instruments means they tend to be ineffective in large modern concert halls, so that live performance is difficult to sustain financially. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Authentic_performance   (3575 words)

WEAC News They point out that although performance on standardized achievement tests correlates moderately with high school grade point averages (approximately.5), scores on standardized achievement tests do not correlate well with first year college performance or performance of tasks that require disciplined inquiry, integration of knowledge, or the ability to deal with new and unusual problems. Meyer (1992) notes that performance and authentic assessments are not the same, and that a performance is "authentic" to the extent it is based on challenging and engaging tasks which resemble the context in which adults do their work. In short, as the term is used in the literature, an authentic performance assessment requires students to demonstrate skills and competencies which realistically represent those needed for success in the daily lives of adults. www.weac.org /resource/may96/perform.htm   (6205 words)

Authenticity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Within the arts, archaeology, the study of antiques, and similar fields involving unique or scarce artifacts from the past, and, with regard to documents in law, authenticity refers to the truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments, sincerity, and intentions; not a copy or forgery. Authenticity (psychology), a psychological concept in which the individual derives gratification and positive emotions from exercising signature strengths Authenticity (reenactment), in historical reenactment, a measure of how close an item, prop, action, weapon, or custom is, to what would actually have been used or done in the time period being depicted en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Authentic   (268 words)

Authentic performance The authentic performance movement is an effort on the part of musicians and scholars to perform works of The two methods adopted by authentic performance artists have been to use historically appropriate instruments and to rely on written evidence from the past to gain insight into how the works were originally played. Most authentic performance artists would not advocate authenticity for its own sake, but rather as a way of achieving more artistically effective performances of older music. www.mp3.fm /Authentic_performance.htm   (1673 words)

scotch wichmann - performance art manifesto And when it comes to objects, performance artists may use them as expected, or invent bizarre new uses for them: where an actor might drink from a water glass, the glass to a performance artist might be a car, for example, or a toilet, or the performer's mother, all three, or none. To witness an authentic performance art action, the audience should be present when and where the action unfolds (unless not having the audience present when and/or where the action unfolds is part of a performance). Performance art decays instantly and is unrepeatable; because performance art can't be bought or sold like objects, it will always be a radical force in the art world with little to lose. www.scotchwichmann.com /festo.php   (523 words)

Research/Practice - Fall 2000-Authentic Student Performance, Assessment Tasks, and Instruction (CAREI) Authentic assessments are necessary for authentic student performance, but high-quality assessments alone are not sufficient. The second teacher's instruction was rated higher in terms of authenticity, and not surprisingly, the students in the second class demonstrated a higher level of authentic student performance on the assessment task than did the students in the first class. The level of a task's authenticity is strongly related to the level of students' authentic intellectual performance. education.umn.edu /CAREI/Reports/RPractice/Fall2000/avery.html   (2181 words)

Authentic Assessment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) In Meye r ’s opinion, performance assessment refers to the kind of student response to be examined but authentic assessment refers to the context in which that response is performed. While not all performance assessments are authentic, it is difficult to imagine an authentic assessment that would not also be a performance assessment. If authentic assessment is to survive the decade and develop into a potent force for educational improvement, then authentic assessment should be clarified through its concepts and terminology. www.missouri.edu /~ejodb6   (2134 words)

What Is Authentic Assessment?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) For example, authentic assessments ask students to read real texts, to write for authentic purposes about meaningful topics, and to participate in authentic literacy tasks such as discussing books, keeping journals, writing letters, and revising a piece of writing until it works for the reader. Working on authentic tasks is a useful, engaging activity in itself; it becomes an "episode of learning" for the student (Wolf, 1989). Performance assessment is a term that is commonly used in place of, or with, authentic assessment. www.eduplace.com /rdg/res/litass/auth.html   (378 words)

JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching Alternatively, authentic assessment (or performance assessment) is predicated on the belief that students need to learn how to perform the meaningful tasks they will encounter as citizens, workers, etc. In other words, acquiring a body of knowledge and skills is not sufficient. Authentic assessment is a form of assessment in which students are asked to perform real-world tasks that demonstrate meaningful application of essential knowledge and skills. Furthermore, an authentic task is more likely to address student concerns expressed in the common question “When are we ever going to use this?” It is not very often in life outside of school that we are asked to select from four alternatives to indicate our proficiency at something. jolt.merlot.org /vol1_no1_mueller.htm   (3498 words)

Strategic Alliances: Student Performance Assessment To us, a complex performance task is one that embeds several performances as a cluster; that cluster is embedded within a real-world scenario and the performance tasks are as authentic as possible. The performances require a range of outcomes, such as the use of knowledge at the upper critical thinking levels and the use of cognitive skills, and may include a requirement that students use academic and other skills within a context to which they can relate. Discriminate among performances validly, not arbitrarily, by assessing the central features of performance, not those that are easiest to see, count, or score. www.ceet.niu.edu /orgs/nsfstali/Student_Performance_Assessment.htm   (5061 words)

"Authentic" baroque music performance: comment and research At the same time however, it should also be understood that performance to a major degree reflects the spirit of the times, and some of today's "authentic" performances have less to do with historical accuracy, attempting rather to produce a performance which, in John Eliot Gardiner's words, will "excite modern listeners". Thus it is that "authentic" performances, while aiming to please modern tastes, often make presumptions which lack historical authenticity and which fail to bring out the full potential inherent in the music. Many "authentic" performances also adopt unsteady tempi, so that the music seems to move in waves, or fits and starts, ignoring the fact that a regular tempo was universally accepted in baroque times when the major concern was keeping unruly players and singers together. www.baroquemusic.org /barperf.html   (3812 words)

Performance assessment Performance and portfolio assessment may also be used to meet other purposes, such as reassignment or reclassification, as determined by teachers or other school staff. Performance assessment and portfolios are typically seen as sources of teacher and student empowerment because control over assessment shifts from the administrators to those linked most closely to instruction (Graves, 1983; Tierney, Carter, and Desai, 1991). Performance assessments require that the assessor: (1) observe the behavior or examine the product that is reflective of achievement, and (2) apply clearly articulated performance criteria so as to make a sound professional judgment regarding the level of proficiency demonstrated. www.finchpark.com /courses/assess/perform.htm   (2180 words)

Glossary of Authentic Assessment Terms (Authentic Assessment Toolbox) Student performance on a task is typically scored on a rubric to determine how successfully the student has met specific standards. Authentic Task: An assignment given to students designed to assess their ability to apply standards-driven knowledge and skills to real-world challenges. A task is considered authentic when 1) students are asked to construct their own responses rather than to select from ones presented; and 2) the task replicates challenges faced in the real world. jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu /toolbox/glossary.htm   (1173 words)

Understanding by Design - Glossary of Terms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Such prompts are not authentic because typical school constraints are placed on the situation, such as access to resources, time allotted, and limits on talking to others. For example, attached to a paragraph describing a six-level performance in writing would be two to three samples of writing that illustrate what a six-level performance is. The anchor for the top score is often called the exemplar. A performance assessment uses more than a single test of performance and may use other modes of assessment as well (such as surveys, interviews of the performer, observations, and quizzes). cjbmindconnect.com /UbD/ubdgloss.htm   (4049 words)

What Happens Between Assessments? // Jay McTighe Performance assessments, then, become targets for teaching and learning, as well as serving as a source of evidence that students understand, and are able to apply, what we've taught. Performance tasks should call upon students to demonstrate their knowledge and skills in a manner that reflects the world outside the classroom. Confronted with rigorous performance standards, some students may well believe that the target is beyond their grasp and may not, as a result, put forth needed effort. pdonline.ascd.org /pd_online/teachbehave/199612el_mctighe.html   (3393 words)

James Wierzbicki / authenticity And, as does Morgan, he feels that the quest for ''authenticity'' is a symptom of the malaise of Western culture in the late 20th century. Yet the same basic approach, he argues forcefully, is evidenced in performances that make no claim to ''authenticity.'' Clarity, lightness, speed and all the other virtues of period-instrument performances of early music are elements of the modern musical taste in general, he claims. Oddly, nowhere in Historical Performance's debut number is there speculation about why interest in ''historically informed'' performance of the 17th- and 18th-century repertoire has surged to the point where the early-music movement has almost become an early-music revolution. pages.sbcglobal.net /jameswierzbicki/authenticity.htm   (2485 words)

[No title] Authentic, performance-based tests of reading comprehension must also ensure that the interaction of lower order automated processing skills and higher order interpretive skills is in fact operative in the respondents. As a result, given the time required for performance tasks, there is, as Messick pointed out, "a conflict in performance assessment between time-intensive depth of examination and the breadth of domain coverage needed for generalizability of construct interpretation" (p. In terms of scoring, it is critical that performance ratings reflect the students' true competence and are not a result of the raters' perceptions and biases of the persons taking the test. www.asian-efl-journal.com /dec_03_rl.doc   (6758 words)

Vienna Peformance Tool The Performance Tool is a suite of utilities developed exclusively by the Vienna Symphonic Library that enables an unprecedented degree of realism when used with the Performance Set. Since achieving ultimate authenticity requires lots of samples, not only of the notes themselves, but also what happens between the notes, there is a point where it’s impossible for the user to be able to trigger all of the required samples at the right time using conventional means. The Performance Tool is a real-time, hyperactive, super smart assistant that is always working in the background, analyzing your performance and choosing the right samples to trigger at the right time, regardless of what you play or how you play it. www.ilio.com /vienna/performancetool.html   (697 words)

Performance Assessment The term "authentic" as it is currently used to describe this new genre of tests offends many test writers. One feature that makes performance testing so rich in its potential is the variety of communicative modes that students might use (as opposed to the "flened bubble" mode of the standardized test). Identify either dimensions of performance or aspects of the product which a) reflect the objectives you had for the test; and b) can be observed and rated with reasonable objectivity. www.usoe.k12.ut.us /curr/Science/Perform/Past5.htm   (3444 words)

Authentic Assessment Toolbox Home Page A good place to start -- In this chapter I identify the characteristics, strengths and limitations of authentic assessment; compare and contrast it with traditional(test-based) assessment. Authentic assessments are often called "tasks" because they include real-world applications we ask students to perform. To assess the quality of student work on authentic tasks, teachers develop rubrics, or scoring scales. jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu /toolbox/index.htm   (252 words)

New Horizons for Learning: Applied Learning and Improved Academic Performance The results were clear: in all cases, high Authentic Pedagogy led to high Authentic Academic Performance. Authentic Academic Performance was measured by open ended problem solving questions, similar to questions found on the Washington Assessment of Student Learning. The report explains: "The Center developed a set of specific teaching standards that measure the extent to which students are challenged to think, to develop in-depth understanding, and to apply academic learning to important, real-world problems. www.newhorizons.org /strategies/applied_learning/research1.htm   (349 words)

BBC - Radio 3 - Beethoven Experience - authentic performance the piano sonatas and quartets of the 1790s would have been written for performance in aristocratic homes -elegant, intimate venues and the wealthy, titled audience would probably have numbered about 40 or 50 at most. The early pianos of Beethoven's time, for instance, produced a quieter, less powerful tone than the ones we often hear today, and the gut strings of the 18th century violin didn't project as incisively as modern metal - nor did the players use so much vibrato to enhance their effect. And when deafness took hold and he couldn't even hear the music he was composing or trying to perform, he demanded ever more powerful, more assertive instruments in all departments. www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/beethoven/historicalperformance.shtml   (529 words)

Performance Assessment, Authentic Assessment, and Primary Trait Analysis A single project can be structured to assess both mastery of course content and attainment of program or major goals as well as certain general education goals such as communication skills, life-long learning skills, critical thinking skills, and social and education values. Performance or authentic assessment is especially useful when it involves an ill-structuredor ill-defined problems, problems that do not have a clear-cut prescribed solution.Assessments designed around ill-defined problems require judgment, planning,the use of a variety of strategies, and the implementation ofpreviously learned skill repertories. Choose an assignment or activity to be used for assessing student performance and make clear the what the objectives of the assignment or activity are. www.nvcc.edu /assessment/ir_performance.htm   (715 words)

DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Includes all mimetic performances: scenes from play scripts, mime, improvisation, etc. Subsidiary elements such as music, sets, or costumes may be included to enhance effect, but will not be judged except as a bonus in Complexity. A performer in a group scene may have his part judged as an individual performance if he submits individual documentation. Judging and scoring for Documentation is based on a graduated level of knowledge and discussion of the components of the performance. artsci.calontir-rush.org /criteria/drama.html   (1426 words)

Authentic Performance - Music-Web Forums Now this is new to me. I've always thought of authentic performances as being an issue with much older music. Such as the use of authentic horns in mozart's pieces. Much of the "serial" music was originally performed with large amounts of rubato and other "romantic" stylistic gestures. www.music-web.org /forum/showthread.php?p=2503   (482 words)

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