Assessment in Music Education: Curricular Connections

The Tenth International Symposium on Assessment in Music Education was held in Olathe, Kansas, USA, from March 20– 22, 2025, and was jointly hosted by the University of Florida and Kansas State University. The symposium brought together nearly 100 participants from six nations across five continents and 19 U.S. states to learn of each other' s work, establish collaborations and professional networks, and shape new directions for research in this important area of music education. The papers published in this volume represent the remarkable diversity of music education assessment practices across the world as well as the unity of purpose and mission that brings music educators and music teacher educators together in their implementation of these practices. The research included here helps illuminate the ways in which music curricula and assessments mutually inform and reinforce each other. In order to ensure that our music teaching has the strongest possible impact, it is essential to recognize the connections between what we teach and how we measure student learning. This conference- and these papers- illustrate these connections on a global scale.