Goal Informed Teaching: Competences and their Assessment

At least since the implementation of the Bachelor and Master degrees have higher education institutions in music started to use competence profiles, also called Learning Outcomes. To what extent these profiles are relevant to the practice of teaching is unclear. One step towards a clarification consists in understanding what it means to teach in a goal-informed, goal-oriented and goal perceptive way and to assess the related competences.

To what extent is it possible to assess whether a music pedagogy student has acquired the necessary competences to become a professional teacher? This question’s scope is limited by two constraints. First, it seeks to determine the observability and assessability of pedagogical competences in the limited context of a pedagogy exam at the end of a study programme. Second, the competences under investigation are strictly related to the overall competence of goal-conscious teaching.

Methods

Conceptual analysis of major concepts involved resulting in a set of working definitions of concepts to serve as foundation for the empirical part of the project. The empirical part includes observations of exams, interviews with teachers and students and questionnaires.