Sense of Belonging in Community College Music Ensembles
Are community college music ensembles a place where music students develop sense of belonging in music by engaging in music-making with members from a diverse community?
Does social and musical interaction within these musical communities develop students’ sense of belonging and encourage them toward transferring?
Co-Curricular Transcript Student Experience
The co-curricular transcript (CCT) documents student activities that happen outside of the classroom but within the university.
This study uses a mixed methods approach (surveys, focus groups, think alouds, etc.) to understanding the student experience of the CCT platform
We use research findings to generate reports about students’ CCT experiences and make recommendations for the development of the platform to various stakeholders
Musical Garden Paths
Investigating the cognitive connection between musical harmony and linguistic syntax using the garden path paradigm.
How are harmonic modulations using pivot chords processed in comparison to garden path sentences?
Does syntactical processing occur in cognitive domains outside of language?