10th International Symposium on Assessment in Music Education
Assessment in Music Education: Curricular Connections
March 20-22, 2025
Kansas State University- Olathe Campus
Welcome
We are thrilled to announce that the University of Florida and Kansas State University-Olathe will be hosting the 10th International Symposium on Assessment in Music Education! This symposium is a fantastic opportunity for music education professionals from all over the world to come together and share their latest research, thoughts, and practices in music education assessment. We warmly invite primary and secondary school music educators, higher education professionals, music education researchers, national, state, and local policymakers, and education officials from around the globe to join us for this incredible event. Check out our website for more information proposal submission, conference registration and accommodations, conference itinerary, and the conference chairs.
Call for Proposals
The proposal submission window is now closed. Congratulations to all the accepted presentation proposals, and we look forward to a wonderful and insightful upcoming symposium.
Host Site
Kansas State University - Olathe Campus
ISAME10 will be hosted at the Kansas State University Olathe campus in Olathe, Kansas, just outside Kansas City. A major historical center for jazz music, Kansas City is the only UNESCO City of Music in the United States. At its peak, more than 200 jazz venues were in operation across the city. Kansas City is also the home to a wide range of performing arts organizations, including Kansas City Symphony, two opera companies, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival, and many more. The region is also known for its outstanding food traditions, especially its trademark approach to barbecue. Olathe, a part of the Kansas City metropolitan area, is itself a home of musicians and artists including Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Pat Metheny, Buddy Rogers, and Charles Miller.
Since 2007, the ISAME symposia have served as one of the most important global events related to arts assessment. At ISAME9, held in Hannover, Germany in 2023, attendees discussed the importance of shared meaning in assessment in order to facilitate conversations about assessment on a global scale. Attendees also heard from a variety of keynote speakers who connected assessment to other facets of educational societal enterprises, helping to broaden our understanding of how assessment is integrated with other elements of teaching and learning.
Building on this expanded conception of assessment and its role in our educational systems, ISAME10 will focus on ways in which assessment is connected to, shaped by, and exerts a mutual influence on music education curriculum. Assessment practices help us to measure and evaluate student learning and advancement in music, and so these assessments are always dependent on and integrated with the curricular content that forms the focus of our teaching efforts. For this symposium, presenters are urged to consider how they can foreground the connections between assessment and curriculum, and how these two core elements of the educational process can inform and support each other.
Key questions for the Symposium include:
The Focus of the Symposium
How do assessments and curricular structures interconnect and influence each other in various educational contexts worldwide?
How can using high-quality assessment practices help to improve our approaches to curriculum, and vice-versa? What common principles, best practices, and/or approaches may be applicable to both assessment and curriculum development and implementation?
How do the contexts in which we teach, including cultural, linguistic, geographic, economic, and curricular elements, affect our approaches to assessment?