A Facet-Factorial Approach to Rating High School Choral Music Performance

1977 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Cooksey
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Choral Music ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Performance Rating ◽  
Factorial Approach ◽  
Reliability Estimates ◽  
Global Performance ◽  
High Criterion

The purpose of this study was to construct and test a rating scale for the evaluation of high school choral music performance, using a facet-factoria I approach. A scale was developed by collecting descriptions of high school choral performances, transforming them into items, and pairing them with a Likert-type scale. Fifty judges used the scale to rate one hundred high school choral performances. The ratings were factor analyzed and inter-judge reliability estimates were obtained. Two criterion-related studies, using a global performance rating and the NIMAC adjudication scale as criteria, were completed. Seven factors of choral performance were produced by the analysis: diction, precision, dynamics, tone control, tempo, balance/blend, and interpretation/musical effect. Thirty-six criteria (dimensions-items) were selected to form subscales to measure these seven factors. The final scale achieved high inter-judge reliability and high criterion-related validity.

Palliative treatment of brain metastases with gamma knife

2001 ◽  
Vol 58 (7) ◽  
pp. 413-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Siegfried ◽  
G. Wellis ◽  
S. Scheib ◽  
D. Haller ◽  
A. M. Landolt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Brain Metastases ◽  
Scale Score ◽  
Gamma Knife ◽  
Palliative Treatment ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Psychische Belastung ◽  
Performance Rating ◽  
Wird Eine

Das Gamma Knife ist ein stereotaktisch-radiochirurgisches Gerät, das erlaubt, radiologisch scharf begrenzte Hirntumore (oder arteriovenöse Missbildungen) mit einem Durchmesser von maximal 3,5 cm und einem Volumen von höchstens 25 cm3 zu behandeln. Diese Methode ist eine echte Alternative zur klassischen Behandlung von Hirnmetastasen mit operativer Entfernung und/oder Ganzhirnbestrahlung. Die Vorteile dieser Technik sind klar: die Methode ist nicht invasiv, die Behandlung benötigt nur eine Sitzung mit einer kurzen Hospitalisation von höchstens zwei bis drei Tagen, die physische und psychische Belastung ist gering, der Kopf wird weder rasiert noch verliert der Patient durch die Behandlung seine Haare; für eine befriedigende Überlebenszeit wird eine gute Lebensqualität erreicht und im Kostenvergleich mit alternativen Methoden (Operation und/oder anschließender Ganzhirnbestrahlung) wirtschaftlich günstiger. Von September 1994 bis Dezember 2000 wurden am Gamma Knife Zentrum in Zürich 140 an Hirnmetastasen leidende Patienten mit dieser Methode behandelt. Mit einer Überlebenszeit von durchschnittlich 263 Tagen und einem Maximum von drei Jahren entsprechen unsere Resultate denjenigen der Literatur mit weltweit über 30000 behandelten Patienten. Günstige Prognosen sind ein Karnofsky Performance Rating Scale Score zwischen 70 und 100, kleine Volumina der Metastasen, kontrollierter Primärtumor und fehlende oder stabile extrakranielle Metastasen.

scholarly journals Developing an instrument for measuring the spiritual attitude of high school students

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Safa'at Ariful Hudha ◽  
Djemari Mardapi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Construct Validity ◽  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Operational Definition ◽  
School Students ◽  
Average Variance ◽  
Instrument Reliability ◽  
Spiritual Attitude

Attitudinal competence is one the most fundamental concepts in social psychology. It is related to personal identity, moral, and ethics that gains popularity and becomes important in educational development. This research aims to develop an instrument to measure the spiritual attitude of high school students. The study was a research and development study consisting of four stages: (a) determining conceptual definition, (b) determining operational definition, (c) drawing indicators, and (d) constructing instrument. The quantitative data analysis was used to test the construct validity through Confirmatory Factor Analysis and the coefficient of construct reliability was used to estimate the instrument reliability. The results of the study show that: (1) the instrument to measure Moslems’ spiritual attitude is an inventory model of summated rating scale containing 35 items; (2) the construct validity was proven by the value of the standardized loading factor and considered as significant. The instrument reliability regarded as the construct reliability coefficient is 0.890 and the average variance extracted is 0.542; (3) the construct of the instrument produces a fit statistical evidence indicated by the Goodness of Fit Index = 0.91 (≥0.90), and Root Mean Square Error of Approximation = 0.032 (≤0.08). The results indicate that the construct of the measurement is suitable with the data. In addition, this research has confirmed that the spiritual attitude of high school students is constructed by seven aspects, namely resignation (tawakal), sincerity (ikhlas), thankfulness (syukur), patience (shabr), fear (khauf), hopefulness (raja’), and righteousness (takwa).

Evaluation for Arts-Based Research Performance: Audience Perceptions of Rising from the Ashes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Viega
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Research Evaluation ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract The purpose of the study is to understand how audiences evaluated an arts-based research performance called Rising from the Ashes. Audience evaluation promises egalitarian and pluralistic perspectives that may assist artist-as-researchers with gaining new insight into out of performative arts-based research results. Rising from the Ashes was performed several times between 2015 and 2019. Evaluations were provided to six different audiences and consisted of rating-scale and open-ended questions based on general criteria for judging arts-based research: incisiveness, concision, generativity, social significance, evocation and illumination, and coherence. Descriptive rating scores and thematic analysis of open-ended questions aided in the artist-as-researcher’s understanding of how audiences responded to the performances. Descriptive scores showed that audiences strongly agreed that the performance was concise, incisive, and evocative and illuminating. The performance was less likely to support audiences’ understanding of the social issues addressed in the study, which implied decreased generativity and social significance. Open-ended questions enhanced and supported rating-scale responses as well as revealed specific elements of the performance that addressed its coherence. The results deepened the artists-as-researcher’s understanding of potential strengths and limitations of Rising from the Ashes based on the audience evaluations. Implications for arts-based research evaluation in music therapy, particularly related to music performance, are discussed.

Standardized Patient Motivational Interviewing Performance Rating Scale

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick Haeseler ◽  
Auguste H. Fortin ◽  
Carol Pfeiffer ◽  
Cheryl Walters ◽  
Steve Martino
Keyword(s):  
Motivational Interviewing ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Performance Rating ◽  
Standardized Patient

Relationships between Motivation Variables and Selected Criterion Measures of High School Band Directing Success

1981 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florentino J. Caimi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Teacher Effectiveness ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Performance Criterion ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Band Director ◽  
High School Band ◽  
Ensemble Performance ◽  
School Band

The level of musicianship achieved by the high school band is often attributed to the director. The personality subcategory referred to as motivation is increasingly becoming recognized as an important factor in teacher effectiveness. Motivational characteristics that contribute to the success of the high school band director are unclear. The purpose of this study was to investigate relationships between eight motivational vari ables and three criteria of high school band directing success. The criteria of band directing success were: (1) ensemble musicianship, (2) ensemble music performance, and (3) students' ratings of their director. A combination of two motivational vari ables–conscious concern for security and subconscious concern for home and parents–were statistically significant predictors of the ensemble performance criterion, while subconscious concern with ethical values was a statistically significant predictor of the ensemble musicianship criterion. The number of students in the high school was also found to be a statistically significant predictor of band directing success.

Faculty Interjudge Reliability of Music Performance Evaluation

2003 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin J. Bergee
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Faculty Evaluation ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Applied Music ◽  
Letter Grade ◽  
Score Reliability ◽  
Scale Total Score ◽  
Interjudge Reliability ◽  
Grade Assessment

Assessment of music performance in authentic contexts remains an underinvestigated area of research. This study is an examination of one such context, the inter-judge reliability of faculty evaluation of end-of-semester applied music performances. Brass (n = 4), percussion (n = 2), woodwind (n = 5), voice (n = 5), piano (n = 3), and string (n = 5) instructors evaluating a recent semester's applied music juries at a large university participated in the study. Each evaluator completed a criterion-specific rating scale for each performer and assigned each performance a global letter grade not shared with other evaluators or with the performer. Interjudge reliability was determined for each group's rating scale total scores, subscale scores, and the letter-grade assessment. All possible permutations of two, three, and four were examined for interjudge reliability, and averaged correlations, standard deviations, and ranges were determined. Full-panel interjudge reliability was consistently good regardless of panel size. All total score reliability coefficients were statistically significant, as were all coefficients for the global letter-grade assessment. All subscale reliabilities for all groups except Percussion (which, with an n of 2, had a stringent significance criterion) were statistically significant, with the exception of the Suitability subscale in Voice. For larger panels (ns of 4 and 5), rating scale total score reliability was consistently but not greatly higher than reliability for the letter-grade assessment. There was no decrease of average reliability as group size incrementally decreased. Permutations of two and three evaluators, however, tended on average to exhibit more variability, greater range, and less uniformity than did groups of four and five. No differences in reliability were noted among levels of experience or between teaching assistants and faculty members. Use of a minimum of five adjudicators for performance evaluation in this context was recommended.

Erratum

2009 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-383
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Performance Rating ◽  
Reference List ◽  
Development And Validation

In the Napoles (2009) article, the name Zdzinski was spelled incorrectly in the text and reference list. The correct reference is as follows: Zdzinski, S. F., & Barnes, G. V. (2002). Development and validation of a string performance rating scale. Journal of Research in Music Education, 50, 245–255

The Effects of Score Use on Musicians’ Ratings of Choral Performances

2009 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Napoles
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Choral Music ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Professional Group ◽  
The Other ◽  
Musical Score ◽  
School Group

The purpose of this study was to determine whether viewing a musical score while listening (as opposed to not viewing the score) would affect musicians’ ratings of choral performance excerpts. University musicians ( N = 240) listened to four excerpts of choral music (from Vivaldi’s Gloria) and rated them on a 10-point Likert-type scale for overall impression. Some of the participants heard a professional chorus and orchestra recording, and others heard a high school group recording. For both of the recordings, participants were divided into four groups in a counterbalanced design, with one group viewing the score for all four excerpts, another group never viewing the score,and the other two groups viewing the score for two of the excerpts but not the other two. Results of a three-way ANOVA with repeated measures indicated significant differences among groups. The group that never saw the scores gave significantly lower ratings than the group that saw all of the scores.The excerpts performed by the professional group were rated significantly higher than the excerpts performed by the high school group.

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