Abstract:
This paper focuses on a musical play, entitled The Peter Piper Pickled Pepper
Mystery, written by a drama educator and music educator for pre-school
children. The paper provides the rationale for the play's development, an
overview of the musical and dramatic content of the script, and a report on the
performance evaluations and their implications for further development of the
musical play.
Responsive evaluation, with its emphasis on activity assessment and usefulness
of findings, provides the means for judging the perceived impact of the play's
performance on its intended target audience. The evaluation process involved a
number of evaluators, including arts educators, pre-school teachers and carers,
final year teacher education students who were the performers. and the two
writers of the play.
