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ABSTRACT
This paper studies the use of innovative digital technologies to assess art and music creative works in China. The authors of the paper conducted an experimental study of the influence of various types of assessment, such as formative and summative, on the academic motivation and mental health of artists and musicians. The study involved second-year students from Xihua University (N = 548). The researchers used the Academic Motivation Scale (AMS) and the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS) as psychometric tools of the standardized methods. Summarizing the results obtained, they can conclude that summative assessment stimulates external motivation, while formative assessment contributes to the development of internal motivation of students. These results allow teachers to offer different types of assessment to strengthen a certain type of students’ motivation. The researchers also found that summative assessment could result in a higher level of amotivation. However, they did not confirm the assumption about the negative impact of summative assessment on the mental state of students.
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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
Ethics approval
The research was conducted ethically in accordance with the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki. The research was approved by the local ethics committees of Xihua University (Protocol no. 4993 dated from 02/02/2022).
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Informed consent was signed by participants.
Data availability statement
Data will be available on request.
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Shikun Wang
Shikun Wang is a Lecturer of the School of Music and Dance at the Xihua University, Chengdu, China. Among research interests are music education, arts, teaching, online learning, etc.