Students listen actively and respond to communications. Students critique what they have heard. Students use verbal and nonverbal skills to express themselves effectively. Students use computers, telecommunications, and other tools of technology to research, to gather information and ideas, and to represent information and ideas accurately and appropriately. Students select appropriate technologies and applications to solve problems and to communicate with an audience.
Students generate several ideas, using a variety of approaches.
The MIDI network began with 7 music teachers who had already started designing assessment systems in the arts. Many of the standards listed are being assessed locally in individual classrooms. However, there are several standards that the network as a whole is approaching together. These standards are the ones begun by the original design team group and focus on Reflection and Critique and the Skill Development of the young composers. Because discussion of work is new in music classrooms and must be extensively modelled, the assessment is currently applied to groups rather than individuals.