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Warnet, Victoria – Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2020
The purpose of this study was to examine the performance trends of middle school, junior/senior high school, and high school ensembles at District Florida Bandmasters Association (FBA) Jazz Band Music Performance Assessments (MPAs) from 2012 to 2017. More specifically, this study investigated the pieces, composers, and arrangers most frequently…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Junior High Schools, High Schools, Musical Instruments
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Bylica, Kelly; Rathgeber, Jesse – Music Educators Journal, 2023
Feedback plays an essential role in music education, helping individuals learn to consider creative works from multiple perspectives. In this article, we explore the Critical Response Process, a four-step process for engaging with artistic works in progress. Founded on the principle that both artists and responders play active roles in feedback,…
Descriptors: Music Education, Feedback (Response), Teaching Methods, Dialogs (Language)
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Wendzich, Tessandra; Andrews, Bernard W. – International Journal of Music Education, 2022
Making Music: Composing "with" Young Musicians was a multi-year, multi-site research project partnered with the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and the Canadian Music Centre to commission composers to collaborate with teachers and students to write educational music. On-site observations undertaken by the co-author and examined…
Descriptors: Music Education, Musical Composition, Feedback (Response), Program Descriptions
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Jordan, Robert C. – Music Educators Journal, 2022
This article presents a field-tested approach for integrating music arranging into middle and high school music ensembles. This project-based unit of study builds on scholarship in informal music learning and social constructivism. Reflections from former high school students who participated in the project help illuminate these connections. The…
Descriptors: Music Education, Middle School Students, High School Students, Student Attitudes
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Marciano, Joanne E.; Watson, Vaughn W. M.; Beymer, Alecia; Deroo, Matthew R. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2020
The authors examined how middle and high school students participating in a literacy-and-songwriting initiative in Detroit, Michigan, experienced moments of possibility that supported the youth in envisioning themselves as college bound. The authors explain how they drew from culturally relevant and sustaining educational approaches to design…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Singing, Musical Composition, Middle School Students
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Wanzer, Dana Linnell; McKlin, Tom; Freeman, Jason; Magerko, Brian; Lee, Taneisha – Computer Science Education, 2020
Background and Context: EarSketch was developed as a program to foster persistence in computer science with diverse student populations. Objective: To test the effectiveness of EarSketch in promoting intentions to persist, particularly among female students and under-represented minority students. Method: Meta-analyses, structural equation…
Descriptors: Intention, Student Participation, Persistence, Computer Science Education
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Pendergast, Seth; Robinson, Nicole R. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2020
This study was an investigation of middle and high school students' preferences for various music learning conditions and secondary music course offerings. The stratified random sample included students who were and were not enrolled in school music classes (N = 827). Participants represented secondary school music students (n = 369), students who…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Preferences, Music Education, Middle School Students
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Albert, Daniel J. – Research Studies in Music Education, 2017
The purpose of this study was to determine if participation in a composition competition influenced four K-12 students' self-concepts as musicians. Research questions explored motivations for these four students to enter into a composition competition, influences of the competition on students' self-concepts as musicians (if at all), and effects…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Musicians, Music, Music Education
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Rodriguez, Regina Chanel – English in Texas, 2015
Music is often regarded as a thing of the creative realm, something that sits to the side of the main core subjects, but music in the classroom shows music can be much more than a complement to a poetry unit. The author's journey through the Country Music Hall of Fame's Words & Music program revealed that delving into the world of songwriting…
Descriptors: Music Education, Writing Instruction, Music Activities, Musical Composition