Resource Index
Introduction: Learning about the Book and Getting Involved
This Introduction states the objectives of Inquiry in Music Education (2nd Edition), describes its layout, and gets you started with the research process.
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Chapter 1: The Spiral and Modes of Inquiry: Options, Choices, and Initial Decisions
This chapter describes how your research journey might begin.
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Chapter 2: Finding and Mapping Sources of Information
This chapter suggests steps to make the reading tasks involved in conducting research as efficient as possible.
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Chapter 3: Toward a Rationale and Research Plan. Writing a Contract with Yourself
This chapter suggests steps for developing a plan to complete a literature review or research proposal.
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Chapter 4: Ways of Thinking and Their Consequences
This chapter introduces contexts and ways of thinking that delineate scholarship within the field of music education and beyond.
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Chapter 5: Approaches in the Philosophical Mode of Inquiry
This chapter focuses on philosophy as a tool for research in music education.
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Chapter 6: Historical Inquiry, Getting Inside the Process. By Marie McCarthy
This chapter describes historical research as a mode of inquiry.
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Chapter 7: Purposes and Questions in Qualitative Research
This chapter describes how research purposes and questions emerge from an interpretive perspective.
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Chapter 8: Selected Procedures for Gathering, Analyzing, and Reflecting on Qualitative Data
This chapter provides guidance for crafting the procedural aspects of a qualitative research proposal.
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Chapter 9: Quantitative Research in Music Education, Letting Numbers Speak
This chapter sets the stage for chapters on understanding descriptive statistics (12), interpreting correlations (13), and designing ex post facto and experimental research projects (14).
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Chapter 10: Understanding Descriptive Statistics
By Debbie Rohwer
This chapter highlights uses of numbers in descriptive research, types of descriptive studies, and how to craft a proposal for descriptive quantitative research.
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Chapter 11: Interpreting Correlations
By Debbie Rohwer
This chapter highlights the components of a correlation coefficient, explains validity and reliability coefficients, and suggests procedures for crafting a proposal for correlational quantitative research.
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Chapter 12: Designing Ex Post Facto and Experimental studies
By Debbie Rohwer
This chapter highlights types of difference studies, explains internal and external validity, introduces Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and suggests how to craft a proposal for ex post facto or experimental research.
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Chapter 13: Exploring Mixed Methods, Practitioner, and Arts-Based Inquiry
This chapter introduces mixed methods research, practitioner inquiry/action research, and arts-based research and provides guidelines for proposing a project for one or a combination of the three approaches.
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Chapter 14: Tools for Data Gathering: Basics of Content and Construction
This chapter describes essential characteristics of commonly used data gathering devices and discusses methodological details involved in planning and designing specific tools.
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Chapter 15: “So What?” Interpreting and Sharing Your Findings
This chapter addresses how to interpret and report your findings and share your findings with different audiences.