A proposed Scenario for Using Piano Feedback system-AI (PFS-AI) Program to Improve the Quality of Automatic Evaluation of The Performance of Piano Students in Specific Colleges in Egyptian Universities - Descriptive Experimental Study

This study aimed to identify a unified method for evaluating the performance of piano students, relying on a technological aspect through which performance indicators are measured to ensure the accuracy and impartiality of results. The study used the PFS-AI program, which is essentially based on an artificial intelligence model built to overcome musical data that appears in unstructured (UD) form. Its activation also relates to improving the quality of automatic evaluation. This approach aims to overcome the difficulty of standardizing the criteria for evaluating practical performance, which includes creative aspects, while adhering to academic quality requirements. This is in light of the digital transformation policy pursued by Egyptian universities. PFS-AI is an accurate means of evaluating the basic elements of the musical corpus, helping students self-evaluate throughout the academic year through self-monitoring. This, in turn, achieves fairness and accuracy in measuring their level by familiarizing them with the criteria for evaluating the final exam. This provides feedback to students, on the one hand, and saves the time and effort expended by faculty members to evaluate students' performance, on the other hand, and provides the financial resources that universities incur for practical exam committees, on the other hand, To achieve the study objectives, a set of tools was used: the digital piano, evaluation forms of the scientific committee (judges), program evaluation through UD, and an expert opinion poll, (828) recordings of four compositions included in the piano curriculum at the undergraduate level (test sample to achieve validity and reliability), (207) recordings of the musical piece (training sample) entitled “Around and Around”, in addition to (3105) recordings of random variations on the basic recordings of the piece. All samples were recorded by piano students at the undergraduate level - Department of Music Education - Faculty of Specific Education - Damietta University, with levels ranging from excellent - very good - good - weak - struggling. The experimental and descriptive analytical methods were employed, as they are appropriate for the study topic. The evaluation elements were: consistency of tone - rhythm - continuous tones - discontinuous tones - speed - adherence to the beginning and end - vocal space. The researcher also performed data preprocessing using MIDI, and all results were positive, achieving the study objectives and hypotheses.