Classroom and instrumental motivation research in Music Education
The effect of explicit instruction protocol across 6 lessons for band students. The results found the treatment condition of explicit practice protocols demonstrated significant changes in performance scores from pre-test to post-test in the treatment condition groups.
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Benefits of collaborative instrumental practice New research from Norway investigates the benefits of collaborative instrumental practice for music students. Recent[…]
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Mental Representations in Expert Musicians Following on from my previous post, it has been found that expert musicians have well-developed[…]
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Goal directed practice and mental representations. I asked student today what he would need to do in order to fix[…]
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The difference is in the types of practice When referring to quality of instrumental practice, mental representations are one of[…]
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To be described as talented – What do we really mean? The gene for talent does not exist. However, many people[…]
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Gender differences in instrumental music practice Are there gender differences in instrumental music practice? Hallam, et al. (2016) have recently[…]
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Instrumental music practice requires an ongoing cycle of planning and self-reflection. Self-regulated learning (Zimmerman, 1989) proposes a model which highlights[…]
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DELIBERATE practice: What predicts level of expertise attained, quality of performance, and future musical aspirations in young instrumental players? Deliberate[…]
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Advanced musicians and instrumental practice self-regulation Araujo (2015) explored the self-regulated practice behaviours of advanced musicians and in doing[…]
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