Music Guidlines 020413

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Composing music courses

Guidelines or submission or ormal assessment

Look at OCAs Student Support GuideAssessments and how to get qualifed,availableto download rom, OCAs student website: oca-student.com. This will tell you about theassessment process. Also look out or videos and other tips on assessment that areposted on weareoca.com. Look out or updates on these guidelines on oca-student.com

Digital Submissions

Please note that all written work (tutor reports, learning logs and blogs do not have to be printed out, i they

are submitted digitally) submitted or assessment MUST be submitted digitally as well as printed out and

submitted on paper along with the rest o your submission. Digital work should be submitted to assessment@

oca-uk.com, clearly stating your name, student number, the course name and what the digital work attached

is (eg critical review, essay etc) This is a requirement and is to enable OCA to carry out plagiarism checks on

work, and a requirement o our validation with the University or the Creative Arts.

I you are submitting an entirely digital portolio on CD or a USB stick, or entirely via a blog, only a sustained

piece o writing (such as an essay or critical review) needs to be sent to [email protected] as well as

printed out and submitted or assessment in hard copy.

I you are submitting work on a USB stick or a CD please ensure you check it thoroughly or viruses beore

you send it in.

Presentation

Include a clear contents list with your assessment submission. All your work must be clearly labelled, stating

which assignment it relates to and with your name and student number on every item you submit. Where

there is a clear link between project work and your learning log, or blog, this should be clearly labelled or

cross-reerenced in some way.

Each piece should be separately bound with its own programme note, and a urther accompanying volume

containing sketched work and supporting projects, listening and research log, and any appropriate personal

statements and tutor reports. The proessionalism o your presentation is important and you will lose marks

or poor presentation.

Students may consult with their tutor i they eel unsure about what to include in their submission based on

their strengths and weaknesses and also or guidance on presentation methods.


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Requirements at each level

Level one course

The ull written scores (hard copies) o all fve o the course assignments selected in consultation with the

tutor, revised as appropriate.

The Sibelius fles o the above compositions, on CD on a memory stick or directly via email to [email protected] ensuring your name, student number and assessment date is listed on the email.

Listening, reading and research log with any with any other documents you eel are appropriate, including

original versions o the assignments.

Tutor reports.

Your url i you are submitting a blog.

Important note about Assignment one or level one courses.

Although Assignment one is not ormally assessed component o the course, the assessors do want to see it,

so that they gain a comprehensive view o your development. So, i you are applying or ormal assessment,do send assignment one in with all the others.

Level two course

The ull written scores (hard copies) o all fve o the course Assignments selected in consultation with

the Tutor, revised as appropriate.

The Sibelius fles o the above compositions, on CD on a memory stick or directly via email to assessment@

oca-uk.com ensuring your name, student number and assessment date is listed on the email.

Listening, reading and research log with any with any other documents you eel are appropriate, including

original versions o the assignments.

Tutor reports.


The 2,000 word critical review. This should be submitted as a sixth assignment, but you should be

working on this along side your other work

Level three course

The ull score o composition which has been the ocus o the study and or which there has been tutorial

support, sent in both hard copy and digitally (see below). The Sibelius fles o the above compositions, on CD on a memory stick or directly via email to assessment@

oca-uk.com ensuring your name, student number and assessment date is listed on the email.

An extended log outlining the progress o the composition rom early sketch orm illustrated with

appropriate musical examples, and including a short programme note.

The listening, learning and research log, to include all the tutor reports.


The 3,500-word critical review.

You must also submit copies o all your tutor report orms. I your tutor has annotated your written work,then you must submit the annotated version o the written work as well as the fnal version.


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Clarifcation on presentation o work when studying multiple courses

I you are studying more than one OCA course at the same time, you must ensure that your work on the

courses you are studying do not overlap in any way. You must keep separate learning logs, demonstrating that

the research you do is specifcally or each o the courses. It is essential that when you present your work or

assessment that it is clear which work relates to which course. There must be a discrete set o work or each

course so that the assessors are clear what they are assessing.

Students cannot present the same piece o work or marks on two dierent units. However, i a students is

studying two units at the same time and doing general sketchbook work or example, to support both units,

this person can submit the sketchbooks or both units as evidence o background research.

About assessment at OCAThe assessment process involves your work being marked by one assessor and then moderated by another

assessor. The average amount o time spent reviewing each submission at assessment is 45 minutes, but this

may increase at level 3 (HE6).

The assessment process is validated by an external examiner who observes the assessment and reviews a

sample o the submissions.

The resulting marks are provisional. The marks are then confrmed by an exam board convened by the

validating university, UCA.

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Music Guidlines 020413