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Factors Influencing Student Continuance In Instrumental Music Classes: A Quantitative Analysis, Andrew Duncan
Factors Influencing Student Continuance In Instrumental Music Classes: A Quantitative Analysis, Andrew Duncan
Masters Theses, 2020-current
In this quantitative study I investigated relationships between motivation, music aptitude, academic achievement, race, gender, and instrument type and student continuance in their first year of instrumental music study. Beginning instrumental music students (n = 30) completed the EVC Survey (Kosovich et al., 2015) to determine expectancy, value, and cost. I collected data on music aptitude, gender, race, and instrument type from teacher and school records, and conducted binary logistic regression and Chi-Square tests in order to determine predictors of continuance in instrumental music classes. I excluded gender, race, and instrument type from the logistic regression model because they did …