Assessment

The integrated curriculum, in which the three core aspects of professional musicianship
(performance, research and entrepreneurship) are coherent components of your development, has
important implications for the manner in which you will be assessed. It means that assessment will
be carried out by an assessment committee representing all three components, and that the
learning outcomes that you will demonstrate are assessed with one evaluation (not separate
grades).

In other words, during your master studies at PCC, your work as a professional musician will be
assessed "in its entirety" based on what you demonstrate within your own, developing professional
practice. This means you – in consultation with your coaches – determine the content, while the
master programme designates what the qualitative frameworkis and sets the requirements and
preconditions.

This chapter explains the above method of testing and assessment.

Holistic Approach
During the four assessments, we look at your development as a professional musician at master's level.
The personal assessment criteria drawn up by you - which are derived from the competencies and
indicators of the master study programme - provide the specific focus of the assessment. Each
assessment is about determining where you actually are in your development and reflecting on the
way you got there. During the Final Assessment you will demonstrate that you have reached the
professional master's level. To prepare for the assessments, the committee reviews your portfolio and
the feedback from your coaches, teachers, colleagues and/or clients, which is recorded therein. The
assessment committee comes to its judgment by reflecting what you demonstrate during the
assessment against your personal assessment criteria and the learning outcomes from which they are
derived.

Integral Assessment
You conclude each semester with an assessment in which, using performance, visual elements and/or
a lecture, you show where you are at as a musician with a (developing) practice and how you got there.
You can see it as a musical/artistic performance (in a broad sense) that you also can illustrate with
examples from your portfolio. The assessment offers a comprehensive overview of your artistic,
reflective and entrepreneurial capabilities as they manifest themselves within your practice. Each
assessment is a new benchmark in your study.

The credits for the semester are awarded on the basis of this integral assessment. If the assessment
as a whole meets the requirements, the credits (30 EC) are awarded. If the assessment is insufficient,
you will be told what you need to do in order to receive the credits. In the most extreme case, this
could mean that you have to do the semester again, but more often this will involve additions to or
clarifications of parts of your portfolio the assessment. In both cases you will receive a substantiation
of your assessment (an explanation as to why the assessment committee may or may not think that
the assessment meets the requirements set) on your assessment form.

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