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The 2004 music assessments
included five assessment tasks that involved responding to music.
All five tasks were identical for year 4 and year 8 students. Two are
trend tasks (fully described with data for both 2000 and 2004), one is
a released task (fully described with data for 2004 only), and two are
link tasks (to be used again in 2008, so only partially described here).
Three of the tasks were administered in one-to-one interviews, with the
other two administered in the group format.
The task details and results for the two trend tasks are presented in
the first section, followed by the task details and results for the released
task. The third section contains some task information and the results
for the two link tasks.
Comparing Results for Year 4 and Year 8
Students
Averaged across 28 task components, nine percent more year 8 than year
4 students (or teams of students) produced correct responses. This indicates
that, on average, students have made useful but modest progress between
year 4 and year 8 in the skills assessed by the tasks. Year 8 students
scored higher on all 28 of the task components.
Trend Results: Comparing 2000 and 2004 Results
Two trend tasks involving a total of five components were administered
to students in both the 2000 and 2004 assessments. Because of the small
number of task components involved, and the consequent limitations of
the reliability of the trend data, the trends across the four-year period
for this chapter are not reported. Overall trends based on the 10 trend
tasks in Chapters 3 to 6 have been reported in the Summary (p3).
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