Access Your AST Profile

If you are already an approved participant, and your family has given you permission to participate, you can log into your Anonymous Subject Tool (AST) Profile using your Christ the Redeemer School Division login credentials.

Go To Your Anonymous Subject Tool (AST) Profile

What Parents Need to Know
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Your child may be a subject of this study if they are a student at Notre Dame Collegiate in Grade 7 during the 2017/2018 or 2018/2019 school years.  Your permission is required for them to participate.  They do not participate in any aspect of the study without your prior consent or approval.

Print PDF Consent Form Package (includes Envelope Cover and Legal-sized Form)

Your students will be completing a series of tests to measure their performance skills, their musical knowledge, and their collaborative ability.  They will complete these tests at the beginning of their Grade 7 year and at the end of their Grade 7 year.  None of these tests will impact their school marks, including their Grade 7 Concert Band mark.  You can follow their progress through their Research Profile, logging in using their Christ the Redeemer username and password (which you may need to ask them for).  You can also follow along the general research progress here.

The Proposal

This study has been approved by the Principal of Notre Dame Collegiate and the Superintendent of Schools for Christ the Redeemer Catholic School Division.  These two administrators are responsible for the education of the subjects of this study.

Read the Proposal

Research Timeline

• Submit Proposal to Paul Dunphy, Principal of Notre Dame Collegiate for approval (complete)
• Submit Proposal to Scott Morrison, Superintendent of Schools for Christ the Redeemer Catholic School Division for approval (complete)
• Distribute consent forms to parents of subjects for approval for the 2017/2018 School Year (at least 30 required) (complete)
• Assist subjects in registering a Research Profile (complete)
• Administer Written Musical Knowledge Test (mid-September 2017) (only missing two students)
• Administer Aural Musical Knowledge Test (mid-September 2017) (in progress)
• Administer Student Attitudes toward Group Environments Test (mid-September 2017) (complete)
• Administer Watkins-Farnum Performance Skills test (late-September 2017) (complete)
• Report to Parents and Administration by October 15, 2017
• Connect with Alberta-based Researchers, October 29, 2017 (complete)
• Compiling Context Data (which schools offer which programs), November 15, 2017 (initiated)
• Publish full and complete literature review (March, 2018)
• Administer Written Musical Knowledge Test (early June 2018)
• Administer Aural Musical Knowledge Test (early June 2018)
• Administer Student Attitudes toward Group Environments Test (early June 2018)
• Administer Watkins-Farnum Performance Skills test (mid-June 2018)
• Report to be included in 2017/2018 School Year Report Card and also delivered to Administration
• Compile Results (summer, 2018)
• Distribute consent forms to parents of subjects for approval for the 2018/2019 School Year (at least 30 required)
• Assist new subjects in registering a Research Profile
• Administer Written Musical Knowledge Test (mid-September 2018)
• Administer Aural Musical Knowledge Test (mid-September 2018)
• Administer Student Attitudes toward Group Environments Test (mid-September 2018)
• Administer Watkins-Farnum Performance Skills test (late-September 2018)
• Report to Parents of both years and Administration by October 15, 2018
• Connect with Alberta-based Researchers, October 22, 2018
• Connect with International Researchers, March, 2018
• Administer Written Musical Knowledge Test (early June 2018)
• Administer Aural Musical Knowledge Test (early June 2018)
• Administer Student Attitudes toward Group Environments Test (early June 2018)
• Administer Watkins-Farnum Performance Skills test (mid-June 2018)
• Report to be included in 2017/2018 School Year Report Card and also delivered to Administration
• Compile and Compare Results (summer 2019)
• Finalize Report (summer 2019)
• Distribute completed report to all subjects, their families, and Administration (September, 2019)
• Publish and Present Report en masse.