Music: Content Knowledge (5113)
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Test Length
2 hours, divided into a listening section (Section 1) and a non-listening section (Section 2). In Section 1 of the test, you are asked questions about recorded musical excerpts. During the audio portions, you are given time to read the questions and possible answers shown on the screen. A clock at the top of the screen shows you how much time is remaining to answer all of the questions in Section 1. You then have 85 minutes to complete the 90 questions in Section 2.
Number of Questions
120
Format
Selected-response questions; 30 of the 120 questions are based on recorded musical excerpts. This test will include questions with an audio component.
Test Delivery
Computer Delivered
The Music: Content Knowledge test is designed to assess a beginning music teacher’s knowledge and understanding of music and music education. Examinees taking this test will typically have completed, or will have nearly completed, an undergraduate music education program.
The test content assesses key indicators of the beginning educator’s musical knowledge and professional readiness for K–12 music instruction required for individuals teaching courses to students in instrumental, vocal, or general music settings, or who will teach courses drawn from any combination of these three areas. Such knowledge is acquired through completion of an undergraduate music education degree program. The material in the test, therefore, is not appropriate for those hired in an adjunct capacity to teach a single element of the curriculum (e.g., those hired to teach only individual lessons or classes on a single instrument).
Materials appearing on the test reflect the diversity of examinees’ music instruction specialties as well as the cultural and demographic inclusiveness of modern music instruction. These materials also reflect instrumental (woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings), vocal, jazz, and general music instruction specialties across the K–12 grade range.
Questions selected for the test represent an equitable distribution of topics, including topics unique to each specialty as well as those that are common across all specialties. This test may contain some questions that will not count toward your score.
