The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric quality (i.e., validity and reliability) of a rating scale to assess pre-service teachers' lesson plan development in the context of secondary-level music performance classrooms. The research questions that guided this study include: (1) What items demonstrate acceptable model fit for the…

In order to explore the factors that inform the occupational identity development of in-service music educators and to compare the identities of in-service teachers with those of preservice music educators as examined in previous research, the purposes of this study were to examine the reported occupational identity of in-service secondary music…

The purpose of this study was to (1) reexamine academic achievement motivation orientations within the context of instrumental music, and (2) examine relations among achievement motivation orientations, self-concept in instrumental music, and attitude to band in relation to teachers' ratings of performance achievement and effort, and students'…

Examines how discriminant analysis techniques can be used in music education research. Provides examples of the technique. Concludes that music researchers can use discriminant analysis to gain new insights into their data. (RKM)

Reports the results of a study designed to determine if there are certain leadership behaviors and descriptive characteristics of successful high school band directors. Concludes that an increased knowledge of leadership behavior can help improve leadership qualities and teaching effectiveness. (RKM)

Motivation of band members was tested by asking them a series of questions related to whether they ever challenged for chair positions and their satisfaction with their present placement and skill. Concludes failure and lack of satisfaction with one's current level of performance resulted in fewer challenges and external attributions of success.…

Secondary and college musicians performed four diatonic intervals (major third, perfect fourth, perfect fifth, and major sixth) both melodically and harmonically. Results indicated no significant differences in overall intonation accuracy in relationship to performed ascending and descending directions or among the four test intervals. (Author/RM)

A survey of 421 high school band programs showed that principals' attitudes toward marching band contests were generally more positive than those of band directors. (Author/JDH)

As a teacher, conductor, adjudicator, and composer, the Danish immigrant Carl Reinhardt Busch educated the citizens of Kansas City and other cities to a higher level of music comprehension and appreciation. He contributed significantly to the development of music education and should be recognized in its history. (SR)

William Channing Woodbridge led a movement to incorporate vocal music in the Boston public schools. A model of the political process underlying this movement generated hypotheses about the political process underlying public school music innovations in politico-organizational environments where executive responsibility for public education is…

Research investigated how high school students conceptualize the basic Classical-Romantic values dichotomy as exemplified by various aesthetic eras, styles, and objects, and how students operate within such aesthetic-conceptual frameworks in terms of their preferences and identification-categorization abilities. (Author/AM)

The effect of peer approval and disapproval on improvement in pitch intonation performance and on the approval/disapproval behavior of fellow students was investigated. The data replicate findings that peers may be effective behavior modifiers and aides to the learning process. (Author/AM)

Two approaches used to teach beginning band, a comprehensive musicianship approach and a performance-oriented approach, were compared. The comprehensive musicianship approach was more effective in teaching interval, meter, major-minor mode, and auditory visual discrimination. Both groups performed equally well. (Author/AM)

The investigation concerned the construction of a test of musical creativity that would assess the hypothesized divergent production abilities of music fluency, flexibility, originality, elaboration, and quality in school instrumental music students. The developed test, measures of musical divergent production (MMDP), was based on models of…

Reports the results of a study that investigated what members of high school choral ensembles perceive as the meaning of choral singing experience and whether there are underlying dimensions in the meaning construct. Achievement, spiritualistic, musical-artistic, communicative, psychological, and integrative dimensions are tied to a generic…