Klarinet Archive - Posting 001164.txt from 2004/03

From: "Diane Karius" <Dkarius@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Learning Styles and Music Instructions
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 18:15:40 -0500

Gary Van Cott asked about learning styles and music instruction. Out of
curiousity I went to the ERIC database (education research -
http://www.eduref.org/index.shtml) . I found a few articles, but
this is clearly an area that has not received much focus from those
interested in conducting educational research.

The articles that seem most directly related to the question:
EJ413986. Moore, Brian R.. The Relationship between Curriculum and
Learner: Music Composition and Learning Style. Journal of Research in
Music Education; v38 n1 p24-38 Spr 1990. 1990

EJ399642. Willett, Barbara E.; Netusil, Anton J.. Music Computer Drill
and Learning Styles at the Fourth-Grade Level. Journal of Research in
Music Education; v37 n3 p219-29 Fall 1989. 1989

These are other articles that may be useful, but seem less directly
related to the question:

EJ443702. Hanson, J. Robert; And Others. Square Pegs: Learning Styles
of At-Risk Students. Music Educators Journal; v78 n3 p30-35 Nov 1991.
1991

EJ623984. Legette, Roy M.. Social Context and Music Learning. General
Music Today; v13 n3 p16-18 Spr 2000. 2000

EJ546587. Gremli, Jack. Tuned In to Learning Styles. Music Educators
Journal; v83 n3 p24-27 Nov 1996. 1996

EJ407736. Cutietta, Robert A.. Adapt Your Teaching Style to Your
Students. Music Educators Journal; v76 n6 p31-36 Feb 1990. 1990

EJ617149. Gremli, Jack; Gremli, Carol. Practice Makes Perfect: Playing
Musical Instruments at Home. Our Children; v26 n2 p10-11 Oct 2000. 2000

EJ617149. Gremli, Jack; Gremli, Carol. Practice Makes Perfect: Playing
Musical Instruments at Home. Our Children; v26 n2 p10-11 Oct 2000. 2000

I limited the search only to those articles published in journals (a
substantial part of the eduation research is published in state reports
or proceedings from meetings). One note: each of the learning styles
inventories (of which there are many) use very different terminology and
look at very different aspects of the learning process, so projecting
from one paper to another is virtually impossible. To add more
difficulty, most of the inventories have at one point or another been
shown to be inadequate/inaccurate/ incomplete by other researchers who
were using them. Further complicating the subject (in case we weren't
challenged enough", education research is just now moving out of it's
"infancy", so many of the papers are only now beginning to use more
rigorous scientific methodology. A major issue is, of course, who is
being experimented on - students who cannot give informed consent for
being in the control (or "placebo") group vs. the experimental group.
In education as in medical research, there are real ethical issues
associated with being in either group. But that's OT... :-)

Diane R. Karius, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Physiology
University of Health Sciences
1750 Independence Ave.
Kansas City, MO 64106
(816)-283-2219
dkarius@-----.edu
http://courses.uhs.edu/physio/index.htm

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