The Effects of Growth Mindset Strategies on the Rhythmic Notation Comprehension and Personal Musical Self-Efficacy Perceptions of High School Instrumentalists

Despite the depth of research in general education and music education teaching methods as well as an implied overlap in these concepts, there is little research directly linking methodology and strategies across these content areas. More specifically, the benefit and implementation of growth-mindset instruction is considered best practice in the general education classroom but is rarely discussed in the context of the performing ensemble. Consistency in educational methods between content areas is critical because it unifies each into a single education process and promotes lifelong learning that will extend into other areas and beyond the classroom. This study will explore the educational and self-reported socio-emotional benefits related to implementing growth mindset tools as a core paradigm in the instrumental music performing ensemble. Guided by common principles of growth mindset education such as goal setting, personal reflection, educational ownership, and musical self-esteem in addition to existing music education research regarding rehearsal techniques and best practices, this qualitative study will attempt to define the parallel themes and connections. The compiled data will demonstrate effects in response to growth mindset education that connect the parallel research and methods between general and music education. This research will intersect general education with music education to assist music educators and administrators with a greater mutual understanding of research-based teaching methods. This will benefit cross-curricular consistency and explore the legitimacy of growth mindset strategies for music students

Interactive Features of Web Surveys

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Strategies for estimating category frequency: Effects of abstractness and distinctiveness

We all divide our worlds into categories. However, our mental categories may not exactly correspond to those in which researchers are interested. Under these circumstances, data quality seems likely to suffer. On

Consequences of mid-stream mode-switching in a panel survey

Face-to-face (F2F) interviews produce population estimates that are widely regarded as the ‘gold standard’ in social research. Response rates tend to be higher with face-to-face interviews than other modes and face-to-face interviewers can exploit both spoken and visual information about the respondent’s performance to help assure high quality data. However, with marginal costs per respondent much higher for F2F than online data collection, survey researchers are looking for ways to exploit these lower costs with minimum loss of data quality. In panel studies, one way of doing this is to recruit probability samples F2F and subsequently switch data collection to web mode. In this paper, we examine the effect on data quality of inviting a subsample of respondents in a probability-based panel survey to complete interviews on the web instead of F2F. We use accuracy of respondents’ recall of facts and subjective states over a five-year period in the areas of health and employment as indicators of data quality with which we can compare switching and non-switching respondents. We find evidence of only small differences in recall accuracy across modes and attribute this mainly to selection effects rather than measurement effects

Chapter 11: Virtual Interviewers, Social Identities, and Survey Measurement Error. Appendix 11

Table A11A.1 Proportion of race-related items for which race of interviewer effects are observed across eleven published studies. Table A11A.2 Virtual interviewer assignments and linked example videos, N=1,735 Table A11A.3. Debriefing questionnaire about respondents’ experience administered textually after the primary date were collected Table A11A.4 Respondent – Virtual interviewer gender and race assignments, and match conditions N=1,735 Table A11A.5 Respondent characteristics, N=1,735 Table A11A.6 Questionnaire administered to respondents. Table A11A.7 Respondent gender and race choices, N=1,73

When Do Misunderstandings Matter? Evidence From Survey Interviews About Smoking

This paper examines when conceptual misalignments in dialog lead to consequential miscommunication. Two studies explore misunderstanding in survey interviews of the sort conducted by governments and social scientists, where mismeasurement can have real social costs. In 131 interviews about tobacco use, misalignment between respondents’ and researchers’ conceptions of ordinary expressions like “smoking” and “every day” was quantified by probing respondents’ interpretations of survey terms and re‐administering the survey questionnaire with standard definitions after the interview. Respondents’ interpretations were surprisingly variable, and in many cases they did not match the conceptions that researchers intended them to use. More often than one might expect, this conceptual variability was consequential, leading to answers (and, in principle, to estimates of the prevalence of smoking and related attributes in the population) that would have been different had conceptualizations been aligned; for example, fully 12% of respondents gave a different answer about having smoked 100 cigarettes in their entire life when later given a standard definition. In other cases misaligned interpretations did not lead to miscommunication, in that the differences would not have led to different survey responses. Although clarification of survey terms during the interview sometimes improved conceptual alignment, this was not guaranteed; in this corpus some needed attempts at clarification were never made, some attempts did not succeed, and some seemed to make understanding worse. The findings suggest that conceptual misalignments may be more frequent in ordinary conversation than interlocutors know, and that attempts to detect and clarify them may not always work. They also suggest that at least some unresolved misunderstandings do not matter in the sense that they do not change the outcome of the communication—in this case, the survey estimates.Schober et al. describe two studies on how survey interview respondents misunderstand interview questions. After answering a survey, participants are given standardized definitions of the questions they have just answered. Even apparently simple questions such as “Have you smoked more than 100 cigarettes?” are interpreted very differently by participants. Moreover, clarifying the meaning of the definitions with the interviewer does not always help resolve the miscommunication.Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/143616/1/tops12330_am.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/143616/2/tops12330.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/143616/3/tops12330-sup-0003-AppendixS3.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/143616/4/tops12330-sup-0002-AppendixS2.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/143616/5/tops12330-sup-0005-TableS2.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/143616/6/tops12330-sup-0001-AppendixS1.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/143616/7/tops12330-sup-0004-TableS1.pd

Mid-eighteenth century account book: Conrad Weiser, 1746-1760 (Breinigsville, PA, The Pennsylvania German Society 1981) translated and edited by L.M. Neff and F.S. Weiser

Conrad Weiser (1696-1760) ran a tannery, selling leather, buying hides as well as meat, soap, and other products. Additionally, he helped Colonial government officials in dealing with the Indians. A well-known businessman in Pennsylvania, Weiser kept meticulous accounting records. Some of his transactions were recorded in German, though most are in English. In any case, the German entries were translated into English in the course of preparing this book. Typical of the times, each account consisted of a debit (left) and contra credit (right) on facing pages. The debits usually signify what Weiser furnished to his customers, generally described starting with the work to. The credit entries usually reflect account settlements by the debtors, the description of which often starting with the work by. A sample account from pp. 98-99 of the book follows