Making professional reliability visible in higher music education: Assessment signals in preparatory simulation
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https://doi.org/10.56433/hxkde067Keywords:
Preparatory simulation, Professional reliability, Assessment signals, Employability, Higher music educationAbstract
Professional reliability, including planning, communication, logistical judgement, and accountability, remains important yet often weakly specified in higher music education. This topical discussion offers a design-analytic account of a production-based music module in which work-like conditions are structured through assessment rather than through formally embedded external stakeholders. Rather than reporting empirical outcomes, the paper examines how proposals, checkpoints, documentation, execution under real-time production constraints, and reflective accountability function as assessment signals. It argues that the educational value of preparatory simulation lies less in surface realism than in how curriculum and assessment make professional reliability visible and consequential beyond technical performance alone. The discussion outlines implications for academic practice, curriculum design, and employability development in contexts where externally embedded opportunities are limited or uneven.
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