Gifted Young Musicians Poised for Advanced Training: Selection Measures

Autor/in	Andreasen, Felicity
Titel	Gifted Young Musicians Poised for Advanced Training: Selection Measures
Quelle	In: International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 6 (2018) 1-2, S.95-102 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Andreasen, Felicity)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2291-7179
Schlagwörter	Gifted; Music Education; Foreign Countries; Secondary School Students; Special Schools; Talent Identification; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Begabter, Hoch Begabter; Musikerziehung; Ausland; Sekundarschüler; Special school; Sonderschule; Begabtenanalyse; Talentsuche; Australien
Abstract	While Australia is without a national policy on gifted and talented education (ACARA, 2014) each state and territory education department offers strategies and guidelines for the education of gifted and talented students. A performance audition, primarily subjective, dominates entry to specialist music secondary schools for musically gifted youth despite policy recommendations towards a multivariate identification approach drawing on both objective and subjective strategies (DET, 2004). The purpose of this paper is to present the case for widening the selection gap for specialist music programs through a review of the entry test process. Reported here are the initial findings for Phases 2 and 3 with tests, Gordon's Advanced Measures of Music Audiation ("AMMA," 1989) and Gordon's Iowa Test of Music Literacy Level 5 ("ITML 5," 1970 rev. 1991), administered to musically gifted applicants (n=73) as part of the entry process to an Australian specialist music secondary school. Results indicated a significant relationship between music potential and achievement and confirmed the predictive value of an objective aptitude test as criteria for ongoing success. A posttest of Gordon's "ITML 6" was conducted with the successful cohort (n=25) on site, six months after entry, revealing high percentiles and significant relationships with "ITML 5." It is surmised that the findings as reported in this paper, clarify an identification model that has the capacity to select highly able young musicians with broad-based potential based on diversity stage of development and skills mastery, in transition from general primary school to secondary specialist music school. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	International Centre for Innovation in Education (ICIE) & Lost Prizes International (LPI). Postfach 12 40, D-89002, Ulm, Germany. Web site: http://www.ijtdc.net/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01