Evaluation of Core Competencies in Compulsory Music Education: A Delphi-based Study on Empowerment

Educational evaluation is essential for the development of education, and shifting from knowledge evaluation to core competency evaluation is a crucial step in today's educational evaluation reform. Since the implementation of the 2022 version of the curriculum standards, how to comprehensively and scientifically evaluate the core competencies of music subject in compulsory education has always been a hot and difficult topic in the practice of quality education evaluation. The study determined the indicator framework for evaluating the core competencies of music subject through literature analysis, expert interviews, and other methods. The Delphi method was used to quantify the four dimensions of core competencies in music subject in compulsory education: aesthetic perception, artistic expression, creative practice, and cultural understanding, which are in the 12 criteria layers and 34 sub criteria layers. This not only clarifies the specific direction for improving the core competencies of music subject in compulsory education students, but also provides path guidance for music teachers to implement core competency cultivation, and provides useful value references for better promoting music curriculum reform.