Summative and Formative assessments
Assessment Overview: Summative and Formative
assessments
100% of available marks for this course come from one essay
assignment i.e. the summative assessment. The assignment must
be word-processed, double spaced and paginated. Marks will be
lost if you fail to follow this basic instruction. You will submit via
the Drop Box system and there will be a practice opportunity to
get this right. No credit will be awarded for ANY illustration used
in the lectures: you must use your own illustration and examples.
The essay will be 2000 words in length (excluding bibliography)
and submitted to the module Dropbox no later than 2 pm on
Friday 13 May 2016. Failure to submit by the hand-in date/time
will be penalised. Please see Liz Heale in the ground floor admin
office if you plan to ask for an extension. She will refer you to the
relevant form for NECs.
There are also ONE piece of FORMATIVE assessment. The
University defines a formative assessment task as "one which is
developmental for students’ learning but does not contribute to
credit points". The purpose of the formative assessment on this
module, then, is for you to submit a short piece of work in
relation to your chosen essay so that Simon Cross can provide
you with some feedback on it (in this case, principally in the form
of suggestions for how you might develop, or improve upon, your
plan). You won't get a grade for your formative work: it is, rather,
an opportunity for you to seek some feedback on your ideas. Of
course, you may prefer to receive feedback on your essay in the
seminar set aside for discussing the essay or office hour meeting
as as well over the course of module. The details of the formative
assessment tasks are as follows:
Formative work will consist of: (a) an introductory paragraph
(maximum 200 words), which may be used in the
coursework/essay itself; and (b) a bullet-pointed essay plan
identifying the principal points, issues, examples, etc., your
coursework/essay will explore. You will then submit the formative
plan to the drop box named 'Formative assessment drop box' by
2pm on 3 May 2016. I will reply within 3 days.
Assess
ment
type
Weigh
ting
Due
date
Description Marking
matrix
Dropbox
folder
Essay
2000
word
100
%
13
May
201
you will choose
ONE question
from the set list
Essay
marki
ng
Essay –
Final
Submis
s 6 at
2pm
under the heading
'Assessment'
found under
'Content'.
matrix
201
6
sion
Assess
ment
type
Weigh
ting
Due
date
Description Marking
matrix
Dropbox
folder
Essay
2000
word
s
100
%
13
May
201
6 at
2pm
you will choose
ONE question from
the set list under
the heading
'Assessment'
found under
'Content'.
Essay
marki
ng
matri
x
Essay –
Final
Submis
sion
Please attach this Essay marking matrix 2016 document
to your essay before you place it in drop box.
Choose ONE of the following essay titles for your assessment.
1. Write a critical response to those who insist on making value
judgements about “good” and “bad” music?
2. Assess the impact of music technologies on the production and
performance of popular music. (Your answer must include at least
THREE detailed examples of recorded music not previously
discussed in either the lecture or seminar.)
3. "The production of musical commodities undermines creativity
in popular music production". Discuss.
4. Who makes music stars: the fans or the industry?
5. What influence has television had on the mediation of popular
music? Your answer must refer to at least FOUR TV shows from at
least three different decades.
6. Why is popular music used as a symbolic resource by “insider”
and “outsider” groups, and how should we conceptualize moral
assaults on popular music? (You are not allowed to use examples
given in the lecture.)
7. Is ‘punk’ a valid category of popular music? Your answer must
engage with issues relating to the valuing and devaluing of
popular music.
8. To what extent is folk music an invented tradition?
9. ‘Music that works politically is not necessarily music that makes
political change its self-consciously ascribed goal’ (John Street).
Discuss.
10. Drawing on examples of 'offensive' songs critically discuss
whether censoring of music can ever be justified. (Your response
to must discuss at least three songs not cited in the lecture or
seminar.)
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