Music Educators Journal

NAEP has developed a new generation of assessment tasks for assessing student achievement in music. These tasks draw on the musical traditions of many cultures and historical periods, and use both paper-and-pencil and performance formats.

The NAEP 1997 Arts Education Assessment represents the first comprehensive approach on a national level to the development of methods for assessing student performance in dance, music, theatre, and the visual arts. This Focus on NAEP, the first in a series offive publications, gives an overview of that effort.