The Common and Agreed National Goals for Schooling in Australia proclaimed in the Hobart declaration in 1989 have important implications for music education. If music is to survive in the school curriculum, student learning outcomes now have to encompass the development of general and transferable cognitive, technological, psychomotor, affective and social skills as well as the more specifically musical achievements. Music education research plays a vital role in overcoming problems associated with curriculum change; and of all the elements of curriculum, that of evaluation is the area in greatest need of radical reform.
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