Which instructional approach is least effective for helping students create criteria for evaluating musical performance?

Teaching to identify cultural roles of music focuses primarily on the context and significance of music within different cultures. While understanding cultural roles can enrich a student’s appreciation of music, it does not directly engage students in the process of creating specific criteria for evaluating musical performance.

In contrast, utilizing peer feedback sessions encourages students to actively participate in assessing performances, allowing them to develop and refine their own evaluative criteria through collaboration and discussion. Demonstrating various performance styles provides students with examples of performance practices that they can analyze and evaluate, which can also help them identify effective criteria. Incorporating historical music analysis gives students insight into how music has evolved over time and the factors that contributed to its development, which can inform their understanding of performance standards.

Thus, while identifying cultural roles is valuable for contextual knowledge, it does not specifically facilitate the skill of creating evaluation criteria for musical performances as directly as the other approaches do.