Galvanizing Factors of Communities Chosen to be One of the Best 100 Communities for Music Education

This study’s purpose is to identify those galvanizing factors that discriminate communities maintaining and promoting high-quality music programs from those communities that do not.  The study has three phases.  The first consists of identification via factor analysis of the factors latent in items comprising the “Best 100 Communities in Music Education” survey.  The second phase consists of (a) a discriminant analysis using, among other things, scores of the factors identified in the first phase as independent variables and group membership (selected or not as one of the 100 Best Communities) as the dependent variable and (b) an analysis by demographics.  The final phase will consist of the development interview questions and subsequent conducting of face-to-face interviews with the persons who submitted the application from a selection of communities chosen and not chosen.

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Bergee, Ph. D, Martin
Title: Principal Investigator
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Eason, Ph. D., Becky
Title: Associate Director, Institute
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Johnson, Ph. D, Christopher
Title: Co-Principal Investigator
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