1999 ~FASTTex projects
Music

Title:
Interactive Analysis of Music Performance Instruction

Faculty Adviser:
Robert Duke

Student:
Aris

Project Description: The goal of the project is to provide music education students a means of (1) analyzing digitized video excerpts of exemplary teachers and (2) analyzing digitized video examples of the students' own teaching, using interactive video analysis software. The innovative aspect of the project is the interactive nature of the analysis software, which permits the user to label, in real time, the components of the teaching-learning process in video excerpts, obtain a statistical summary of the teaching episode observed, and finally to interactively view selected segments for the labeled excerpt in order to study the cause-and-effect relationships between the instruction provided by the teacher and student learning. This view of the teaching process is impossible to obtain without the capability of quicly accessing labeled segments of recorded video.

Title:
Train Them Ears: Web-based Aural Skills Instruction

Faculty Adviser:
Cynthia I. Gonzales

Student:
Wei Yeh

Project Description: In music, "aural skills" refers to ones' ability "to hear" a written score and "to visualize" sound notated on a musical staff. The goal of this project will be to provide on-line testing, and to alleviate two common challenges to testing aural skills in a classroom situation. (1)When testing a group of studetns, the music excerpt to be transcribed is heard a set number of times. Thereby, all students must work on a given problem at the same time and at the same rate. On-line testing will allow students to work at their own pace. (2)When testing a group of students, each must be silent, so as not to bother the others. Yet, it is easier to complete aural skills tasks when allowed to hum or sing outloud, matching what one hums/sings to what one hears. On-line testing will allow students to sing outloud to verify what they are hearing.