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Peer Mentoring in an Extracurricular Music Class
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Goodrich, Andrew – International Journal of Music Education, 2021
The purpose of this study was to explore how high school students mentored beginning fifth-grade students in an extracurricular music class for double-reed instruments. In this study, I investigated the role of peer mentoring with how high school mentors shared their knowledge and experiences, and the role of the teacher in this process. The…
Descriptors: High School Students, Mentors, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
Who Takes Music with Them When They Transition to High School?
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Tucker, Tevis L.; Winsler, Adam – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2023
According to music educators, persistence beyond a student's initial enrollment in middle and high school music is a problem; however, there has been little research to substantiate this claim. Although several recent large-scale, longitudinal studies of initial selection into music classes have been conducted, longitudinal studies on who…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Grade 9, Middle School Students, High School Students
An Analysis of the Metaphorical Perceptions about the Piano by Fine Arts High School Students
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Avci, Ayca – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2020
The aim of this study is to determine, as expressed in metaphors, the attitudes of the students of music department in the Fine Arts High School (FAHS) in the 2019-2020 academic year. The study was carried out with 37 music students in 9th and 12th grades of Mersin Adiyaman Fine Arts High School. In line with the phenomenological research design,…
Descriptors: Music Education, Musical Instruments, Fine Arts, Student Attitudes
Instrumental-Music Study and Student Achievement
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Heninger, Benjamin Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This quantitative study explained relationships among independent variables that included instrumental music participation and achievement on a standardized test by participants in the ninth grade at a western Wisconsin high school. The ACT "Aspire" (2017) test is a vertically articulated, standards-based system of assessments. Subtest…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Musical Instruments, Academic Achievement
Two Studies of Pitch in String Instrument Vibrato: Perception and Pitch Matching Responses of University and High School String Players
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Geringer, John M.; MacLeod, Rebecca B.; Ellis, Julia C. – International Journal of Music Education, 2014
We investigated pitch perception of string vibrato tones among string players in two separate studies. In both studies we used tones of acoustic instruments (violin and cello) as stimuli. In the first, we asked 192 high school and university string players to listen to a series of tonal pairs: one tone of each pair was performed with vibrato and…
Descriptors: Musical Instruments, Music Education, High School Students, College Students
Fearless Improvisation: A Pilot Study to Analyze String Students' Confidence, Anxiety, and Attitude toward Learning Improvisation
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Alexander, Michael L. – Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2012
The purpose of this study was to investigate the confidence, anxiety, and attitude of novice string student improvisers. A form of the Fennema-Sherman Mathematics Attitudes Scales, as modified for improvisation by Wehr-Flowers, was given to middle school and high school string students (N = 121) after their participation in a 4-month improvisation…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Anxiety, Novices, Gender Differences