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50 Years of ERIC
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Darrow, Alice-Ann; Johnson, Christopher – International Journal of Music Education, 2009
The purpose of the two studies reported in the article was to determine whether or not a relationship exists between preservice music therapists' and teachers' nonverbal behaviors and their perceived rapport. In study 1, evaluators (N = 56) viewed a stimulus tape consisting of 15 45-second segments of 15 preservice music therapists leading songs…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Nonverbal Communication, Interpersonal Relationship, Music Teachers
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Darrow, Alice-Ann; Marsh, Kerry – International Journal of Music Education, 2006
The purpose of the present study was to determine choral students' ability to predict and evaluate their sight-singing skills. Participants were asked to assign a rating based on how well they predicted they would sight-sing five musical examples. Following the singing of each example, participants were asked to evaluate their sight-singing…
Descriptors: Music Education, Singing, Rating Scales, Music Teachers
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Wapnick, Joel; Ryan, Charlene; Lacaille, Nathalie; Darrow, Alice-Ann – International Journal of Music Education, 2004
The purpose of this study was to ascertain whether judgments of solo performances recorded at a well-known international piano competition would be affected by musical characteristics such as style (classic period versus early 20th-century Russian) and tempo (slow versus fast). Evaluators rated performances on six test items: tone quality, note…
Descriptors: Music, Competition, Musicians, Performance Based Assessment