Measure for measure: Curriculum requirements and children's achievement in music education

Journal of Applied Measurement

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 368-383

  Bond, Trevor ^b   Bond, Marie ^a  

^a Townsville Grammar Junior School   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; DEVELOPMENTAL LEARNING; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; HUNGARIANS; LEARNING OPPORTUNITY; MUSIC EDUCATION; MUSIC NOTATION; MUSICAL CONCEPTS; MUSICAL PERFORMANCE; PEDAGOGICAL PRINCIPLES; PRIMARY SCHOOLS; QUANTITATIVE DATA; QUEENSLAND;

DATA REDUCTION; EDUCATION COMPUTING;

CURRICULA;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MUSIC; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CURRICULUM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUSIC; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 79952279354     PISSN: 15297713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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