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Importance of Assessment Talk
How do we move students from being mere passive recipients of grades to becoming active, empowered participants in the assessment process? This question at the heart of a recent post by Tania Lattanzio,...
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Hello Hanyang, Thank-you for your post. In response to your intitial question, "(Does) the Performance Adaptation have to be a piece that the student has studied in Section 1?" Yes, it does. On page 30 of...
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Dear Renato, Thank you so much for your input. Yes, I agree that sound effects can play an important part in the creation of any music, but particularly in music technology. I have added your suggestion to the public domain...
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Hi Jim, Thank you for your patient reply. I'm wonderring, If the piece selected for Section 3: Performance Adaptation have to be a piece that the student has studied in Section 1? For example, in the Section 1 research component...
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Hi, I have a similar question about an EE that my student submitted in the May 2026 cycle. It got a very bad score and as a teacher Im specifically trying to understand how I could have guided the student better so that I dont repeat the error with...
EE - Sample 1 (Grade C, May 2024)