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Ajda Aylin Can – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2025
Students receiving instrument education in institutions providing vocational music education are expected to enhance their self-efficacy perceptions regarding their instruments, identify their motivations, and develop strategies for their learning approaches. These efforts aim to address deficiencies encountered during the educational process and…
Descriptors: Musical Instruments, Music Education, Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy
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Miksza, Peter; Tan, Leonard – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2015
The purpose of this study was to determine whether students' practice efficiency, flow during practicing, and self-efficacy for self-regulation varied as a function of their practice tendencies, their tendencies toward self-evaluation, their self-regulatory tendencies to be self-reflective when practicing, tendencies to exhibit grit in their…
Descriptors: Music Education, College Students, Self Efficacy, Musical Instruments
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Lehmann, Andreas C. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2014
Entrance examinations and auditions are common admission procedures for college music programs, yet few researchers have attempted to look at the long-term predictive validity of such selection processes. In this study, archival data from 93 student records of a German music academy were used to predict development of musicianship skills over the…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Predictor Variables, Grades (Scholastic), Music Education
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Matthews, Wendy K.; Kitsantas, Anastasia – Psychology of Music, 2013
This study examined the effects of the conductor's goal orientation (mastery vs. performance) and use of shared performance cues (basic vs. interpretive vs. expressive) on instrumentalists' self-efficacy, collective efficacy, attributions, and performance. Eighty-one college instrumentalists from two musical ensembles participated in the study. It…
Descriptors: College Students, Music, Music Activities, Musical Instruments
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Hayward, Carol M.; Gromko, Joyce Eastlund – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine predictors of music sight-reading ability. The authors hypothesized that speed and accuracy of music sight-reading would be predicted by a combination of aural pattern discrimination, spatial-temporal reasoning, and technical proficiency. Participants (N = 70) were wind players in concert bands at a…
Descriptors: Music Reading, Musicians, Vision, Visualization
Bobbett, Gordon C.; Dorothy, Wayne F. – 1990
This study evaluated the relationship between musical independence and: students' gender; home environment; high school and college academic and musical experiences; and college instrumental organization, major, and instrument. The study also evaluated students' opinions regarding attrition in music education and evaluated the spectrum of musical…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bands (Music), College Students, Family Environment