Profile of Students' Music Experiences
Figure 2.7, The NAEP 1997 Arts Report Card, 1997 arts assessment. An examination of opportunity-to-learn factors provided by students in the music background questionnaires helps to illustrate activities that are associated with various levels of proficiency in the NAEP music responding scale. (The music "responding" scale summarizes student performance on music exercises that required students to write responses to questions or do multiple-choice questions.) As shown in the figure, enrollment in some type of school music ensemble was associated with generally higher levels of performance on the NAEP music responding scale, especially in distinguishing between groups of middle-level and upper-level students. Notably higher percentages of enrollments in school bands and choruses were observed in the middle-level and upper-level groups of students*, in contrast to students in the lower-level group. A similar contrast is observed in orchestra enrollment between the upper-level and lower-level groups of students. To explore student profiles for theatre and visual arts, check out the NAEP 1997 Arts Report Card. * The lower group comprised students whose scores fell into the lowest 25 percent of the population. The middle group comprised students whose scores fell into the middle 50 percent of the population. The upper group comprised students whose scores fell into the highest 25 percent of the population.
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