[Menvi-discuss] Test transcription.

[Kaiti Shelton]

Hello,

Thank you for the responses.  I've been in contact with my Braillest
and teacher since sending my last email.  In the meantime my aid is
going to braille the test as best she can, and my teacher is aware
that there will be things on the test that may have gotten lost in the
translation.  Thankfully, he is verry willing to work with me orally
until this issue is resolved.

Thanks for the feedback regarding braille transcribers and theory
tests as well.  I will be contacting my transcriber shortly to discuss
arrangements for future tests and exams, as well as going through the
process of teaching my teacher the necessity of making tests up
farther in advance so that the transcriber has enough time to work on
the test and send it back for embossing.  As some may know, that might
be the most challenging part, especially if a teacher has been
teaching a certain way for several years and isn't used to writing
tests in enough advanced time for a transcriber to do their work).
However, I am hopeful that I will be able to resolve this issue.

Thanks again for your help.




On 9/15/11, Bill <billlist1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Hi, Kaiti,
>
> Sounds like you need to have the school or your rehab agency provide you
> with the services of a reader who can read and write print music. You could
> take the test orally and have your scribe write down your answers.
>
> Another possibility would be to have the reader read the test question and
> then you could use Lime to produce your answer in print staff notation.
>
> Of course, it would be ideal to have a braille edition of the test, give
> your answers in literary and music braille, and have all of that perfectly
> transcribed back into print.  But it is up to you to decide if you are ready
> to invest all of the time, Entergy and money needed to complete that
> process.
>
> I myself took lots of music theory tests orally either directly with my
> instructor or using a trusted reader to both read the test and write my
> answers.  But, as they say, one size does not actually really fit all.  :)
>
> Regards,
> Bill
>
>
> Bill McCann
> Founder and President of Dancing Dots since 1992
> www.DancingDots.com
> Tel: [001] 610-783-6692
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org
> [mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org] On Behalf Of Kaiti Shelton
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 1:28 PM
> To: menvi-discuss at menvi.org
> Subject: [Menvi-discuss] Test transcription.
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm supposed to take my first theory test tomorrow.  Originally, my teacher
> was going to give me an alternative test using the exercises in my workbook
> which would cover the same material on the printed test.  He gave the test
> to my aid to braille though, and of course she does not know how to read
> braille music, or music in general.  I tried to help her by telling her
> basic music symbols and how to braille them, but she was having trouble
> understanding the flat and sharp signs and certain things that I'll need in
> order to have brailled in order to understand the questions on my test.
>
> What I'm asking is, is it within the jurisdiction of a music transcriber to
> transcribe tests?  I suppose future tests will have sections of music which
> will need to be transcribed anyway, but the majority of the test will be
> instructions.  Now, for example, we have questions that ask for notation of
> certain intervals based on a starting note and a numerical interview value,
> or to name an interval numerically based on it's two notes, etc.  This, of
> course, would not be an issue, however accidental signs combined with a
> complete unfamiliarity of the music code make it impossible for my braillest
> to do the work.  (I felt so bad for her.  She was asking me how to notate a
> key signature and she was thinking in terms of nimeth and asked me if she
> should use a superscript before notating a flat sign).  If anyone has any
> advice or tips on where I should go to get my tests brailled I would greatly
> appreciate it.
>
>
>
> --
> Kaiti
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Kaiti