Midterm

Step 3

  • Reflect on the following

A.  How confident are you in the predicted outcome of the written analysis?  20%, 40%, 60%, 80% or 100% 80%

B.  How confident are you in the predicted outcome of the ear training?  20%, 40%, 60%, 80% or 100% 80%

C.  How confident are you in the predicted outcome of the dictation?  20%, 40%, 60%, 80% or 100% 90%

D.  On a scale from 1-10, about how much effort/time did you put into preparing for this exam? 8 

E.  What part(s) did you find most challenging?  Easiest? The hardest for me was recognizing the chords in the written analysis, and the dictation was the easiest for me. 

 

Midterm Reflection

REFLECTION:

 

Step 1

  • Review the Benchmark Goals you set for yourself in Getting Started, what is it that you hope to know and/or be able to do at the conclusion of the course?

A.  Comment on your achievements thus far I have been pretty diligent with getting my work done and have been putting a lot of outside efforts into getting ahead with my work. 

B.  Are you making good progress toward your goal? I am making great progress towards my goal, and I hope to finish the course a little after the midterm. 

C.  Have you been able to stretch yourself to learn more or do you find that you rely only on what you already knew prior to the course? In the beginning I used to very much rely on my prior knowledge, but as the course progressed I found I could no longer do that and I did stretch myself to learn more. 

D.  What has been the greatest benefit/most rewarding aspect of your learning experience this semester? I would say the pace I have been working as been really rewarding, especially since I've hit the midterm already, that feels good to be ahead. 

E.  What might interfere with your progress and how can you prevent this interference? My laziness and other course work is my biggest obstacle, especially when I want to be lazy and do nothing but know I must keep working to reach my goals. 

 

Step 2

  • Review your Getting Started Self Regulation Inventory & Work Habits 

A.  Comment on the outcome of these self assessments as it relates to the quality of your work flow thus far. I have been really steady with my workflow pace, and even at my fast rate I feel like I have produced quality work. At the beginning I did want to get ahead, so I did rush some of my gateways and summative, but I learned to balance speed and quality work. 

B.   What has been your greatest strength? Keeping on top of my goals and staying ahead with the course load. 

C.   How can you compensate for weaknesses? I can make more lists and dates to get things done instead of just going with the flow of the work. I can be more specific, in a sense. 

D.   In what ways might you modify your approach to the class during the second part of the semester? If I feel myself slow, I might write down actual dates for when I want deadlines to occur. And if I feel like my quality of work is declining, I'll slow it down and really go back to going deeper. 

 

Step 3

  • Review your Music Literacy Benchmark Assessment located in Unit 1

A.  Comment on your achievements thus far (1,3,5) relating to your literacy confidence for each concept. My scores reflected my abilities pretty accurately. I think I was a little overconfident in meter but I wasn't too bad. I was accurate in my 2 in chords because I really am not good at them, but I am a heck of a lot better. 

B.  Are you making good progress toward your goal? Yes I am making progress. 

C.  Describe the resources/tools that are most helpful to your understanding of this subject The musictheory.com website is always helpful for getting started, and for finding resources to practice. Alfred can be stupid but it also does help solidify concepts. 

D.  What might interfere with your progress and how can you prevent this interference? My other classwork can interfere with my progress in this course, but if I keep on top of everything I should be fine. 

 

Step 4

  • Complete the Work Habits Self Assessment either in Notability or paper version to reflect your current areas of strengths and areas of needed improvement for the second half of the semester

 

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Step 5

  • Briefly review the assignments you have submitted for Units 1-5

A.  Comment on the quality of work reflected in your ePortfolio relating to areas of strengths as well as areas of needed improvement. My quality of work reflects my abilities pretty accurately, some alfreds I did not do my best on but when I saw I did poorly, I'd continue to build my skills in those areas to improve for the gateways and summatives. 

B.  Will you continue to sculpt the work reflected in your ePortfolio as you did for the first half of the course or do you plan on making changes for the second part of the semester? I will be keeping relatively the same pace (hopefully) for the second semester and I will be formatting everything more or less the same on my Jimdo as I had the first semester because I found it is a system that works well for me. 

 

Step 6

  • Please help us sculpt the next phase of the course by providing feedback, suggestions, etc. related to Unit Content, Alfred, Wix, On-Campus, ePortfolio, Work Flow, etc. 

Although frustrating, Alfred is not the worst tool in the toolbox. I'd suggest getting familiar with what units in Alfred have what topics to try and sculpt out irrelevant units that are found. Other than that I think all of the tools we use are helpful and Alfred isn't entirely a sin.