Both musical training and age were found to influence the ability of string students to discriminate tempo change. The musical variables of speed, style, and direction also affected tempo perception. However, the music variables explained less than one-third of the total variance. Tempo perception is an extremely complex phenomenon. (Author/RM)

This thirteenth annual annotated listing of research in mathematics education included 23 research summaries, 260 articles, and 284 dissertations. Grade or age level is indicated and an index for mathematical topics is included. (MNS)

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)

One hundred forty-four students, randomly selected, were tested individually for pitch-discrimination and vocal pitch-matching abilities. Pitch-discrimination scores were used to subdivide each age group into three ability-level groups. There were significant differences in pitch-matching scores between the age groups but not within the ability…

Results of the study, which involved undergraduate and graduate music students, demonstrated that (1) various rhythmic alterations affect perception of rhythmic dissimilarity; (2) melody alters perception of rhythmic dissimilarity; (3) and the simultaneous presentation of melody and rhythm may result in reduced attention to absolute rhythmic…

The nature of music, education, and community, and the interactions among these three factors in nineteenth-century Kansas, were studied to determine the role and function of music education in a sociocultural context. (SR)

Study results revealed the following: (1) age affected the children's perception of melodic rhythm, contour, and interval; (2) high-ability singers scored higher than low-ability singers on perception of melodic rhythm, contour, and interval and tonal center; and (3) instrumental experience did not significantly affect perception of melodic…

The Motoric Music Skills Test was administered to 103 public school children, ages five through nine. Improved skills were related to age, and normal subjects attained a better performance in the areas of motor pattern coordination, eye-hand coordination, and speed and range of movement. (Author/RM)

Results indicated that the attentiveness of performers in a university symphonic band was a function of both performance time and treatment. Student attitudes were related significantly to music, conductors, and their interaction. (Author/RM)

Significant differences in rhythm pattern ability were found between the normal and disabled readers. The differences were greater at age seven than at age eight. (RM)

The most powerful predictor of student persistence in undergraduate music education majors was found to be the grade point average, especially the applied music grade at the end of one year of study. (RM)

Results indicated that faster tempos are preferred by upper elementary school students. (RM)

Participation in an economics workshop had significant positive impact on the economics achievement of the teachers involved and on their opinions about economics as a subject. Teacher workshop participation also had a significant, though indirect, positive impact on students' economics achievement and their opinions about economics. (RM)

The social studies teaching by four student teachers was shaped not only by beliefs about social studies, but by such things as a concern for developing an appropriate teacher role, ideas about what school is about and what ought to be learned there, and past educational experience. (RM)

The value of using more than one data collection procedure to investigate an educational question is illustrated. A semantic differential instrument provided an index of the direction and intensity of teachers' attitudes, but an unstructured interview provided a more detailed portrayal of their opinions. (RM)