SMERS Schedule at a Glance
Conference Room
8:00 AM
8:30 AM
Barness Recital Hall
Opening Remarks by:
Dean James S. Moy,
Dean of College of The Arts, USF
Dr. Karen Bryan,
Director of the School of Music, USF
Keynote Address
Musical Immersions in the 4th
Dimension
Kari Veblen,
University of Western Ontario
Reneke Smilde,
Prince Claus Conservatoire (The
Netherlands)
Perceptions of Difficulty, Confidence,
and Practice Techniques in Adult
Concert Bands
10:15 AM
Debbie Rohwer, University of North
Texas; Jeremy Lane, University of
Arkansas at Little Rock
10:45 AM
Beginners Aren’t All Nine Years Old: The Influence of the Guatemalan
Cognitive Load Impacts Effective
Municipal Orchestra's Curriculum
Wind Practice
on the Social Relationships of its
Members
Laura Stambaugh,
Georgia Southern University
Jacobo Nitsch,
Florida International University
Engaging Student Singers:
A Case Study of an Adult Identified
Developing Self-Regulated Learning Non-Singer
through Reflection and Collaboration
in Music Education
Joanne Rutkowski,
Pennsylvania State University
Sarah Morrison,
The University of Toronto
BREAK
The Brain’s Conductor: Working
Memory and Music
11:00 AM
Choral Room
Registration
The New Audience Musician: An Artistic
Response to Societal Change
9:45 AM
Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015
Tracy Alloway
University of North Florida
Co-Constructing Music and
Research: Making Music Learning
Audible and Visible
The Community Music Project: A
Model for Music Teacher
Preparation Courses
Alison Reynolds & Heather
Waters, Temple University
Kerry Renzoni-Filsinger,
Buffalo State University
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The Relationship Between Musical
Engagement and Agency Across the
Lifespan
11:30 AM Jennifer Hutchison,
University of Western Ontario
Senior Center Band Experience: Why
They Joined, Continue, and Will Quit
12:00 PM
David Smith,
Western Michigan University
Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015
Choral Room
Barness Recital Hall
Forming Musical Meaning through
Music Literacy
Co-Constructing a Graduate Music
Education
Suzanne Burton,
University of Delaware
Heather Waters, Yiyue Zhang,
Mary Real, Pamela Turowski, &
Emily Westlake, Temple University
Hearing Loss and the Relationship to
Aural Skills and Academic
Achievement in Music Majors:
Preliminary Findings From a
Longitudinal Study
Students’ Perceptions of Performing
and Learning the Music of West
Africa
Chengcheng Long, Arizona State
University
Valerie Trollinger, Kutztown
University; Robert T. Sataloff,
Drexel University
12:30 PM
1:30 PM
LUNCH
POSTER SESSION
2:30 PM
2:45 PM
BREAK
PANEL SESSION
Assessment and Musical Development
Panel Chair, Timothy Brophy,
University of Florida;
Working Memory and Music
Tracy Alloway,
University of North Florida;
Growth Models in Music Education,
Edward Asmus,
University of Georgia;
Examining Rater Quality in Music
Performance Assessment,
Brian Wesolowski, University of Georgia
Examining Self-Efficacy, Music
The Detroit Lullaby Project
Achievement, and Music Class
Enrollment Among Secondary School Wendy Matthews & Carolyn
Instrumental Students
Dayton, Wayne State University
Michael Zelanak, Alabama State
University
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(Panel Session Continued)
3:15 PM
Meaningfulness in the Community
Chorus: Portraits of Four Adult Singers
Krystal Rickard McCoy,
College of Southern Maryland
4:00 PM
Instrumental Music Recruitment Across
the Lifespan: A Content Analysis
4:30 PM
5:00 PM
Josef Hanson, Eastman School of
Music/University of Rochester
Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015
Choral Room
Using Small Ensembles to Promote
Meaningful Music Making in Band
Barness Recital Hall
Evaluating Synchronized Video
Feedback in Preservice Teacher
Education: A Pilot Study
Amy Spears, Nebraska Wesleyan
University; Danelle Larson, Eastern
Illinois University
David Rickels,
University of Colorado at Boulder
Varied Musical Experiences and
College Student's Open-Mindedness
in Turkey and in the United States
Brief Focused Inquiry: Music
Metaphor as a Framework for Small
Scale-Research Studies
Mustafa Bulut, Zekeriya Kaptan,
Yusuf Özgül, & Esmira Mehtiyev,
Cumhuriyet University (Turkey);
C. Victor Fung, University of South
Florida; Lisa J. Lehmberg,
University of Massachusetts,
Amherst; & Patrick Hernly,
St. Petersburg College
Bernie Andrews,
University of Ottawa
Gamification In Music Education
Interdisciplinarity in Times of
Accountability: Changing Teacher
Practice in One Urban District
Demet Aydinli Gurler,
Cumhuriyet University (Turkey)
Cathy Benedict & Patrick Schmidt,
Florida International University
Lifeline Mentoring in an Adult Chamber
Ensemble
Irving Emerson, Connecticut Music
Educator: 1843-1903
Andrew Goodrich, Boston University
Terese Tuohey,
Wayne State University
Elders' Experience of Music and
Singing: Five Ideas for Music
Teacher Education
Lisa Crawford, University of
Southern California
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SMERS Schedule at a Glance
Conference Room
8:00 AM
8:30 AM
Friday, Feb. 6, 2015
Choral Room
Barness Recital Hall
Registration
Keynote Address
Music, Creativity, and
Positive Plasticity in
Lifespan Developmental
Context
David Meyers,
University of Minnesota
9:30 AM
Dismantling Barriers to
Quality Music Instruction
for Older Adults in Rural
America: A Collective
Case Study of Six Adults
Taking Online
Synchronous Music
Lessons
Social Networks/Social
Media as Agency in Music
Learning and Teaching
Enhancing Self-Regulated
Practice Behavior in High
School Instrumentalists
Janice Waldron,
University of Windsor
Kim Mieder & Jennifer
Bugos, University of
South Florida
Students’ and Teachers’
Perceptions of the
Engagement of Creativity
in Secondary School
Choral Music Ensemble
Classes
Ethnography of a Southern
Roots Music Community:
Field, Swamp and Internet
Pamela Pike, Louisiana
State University
Exploring Connections
Between the Music
Classroom And Lifelong
Music Engagement
10:00 AM
Will Dabback,
James Madison University
David Langley, Georgia
Southern University
10:30 AM
BREAK
Susan Mills,
Appalachian State
University
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Friday, Feb. 6, 2015
Choral Room
‘It’s the Journey That
Counts’: Voices From PreService Teachers on
Beginning Music
Carol Beynon & Jennifer Education
10:45 AM
Hutchison,
University of Western
Ailbhe Kenny,
Ontario
Mary Immaculate
College/University of
Limerick (Ireland)
The Power of
Intergenerational Singing
in Alzheimer’s Care
Dare to Differentiate: A
Pedagogical Approach for
Adult Music Learners with
Diverse Needs
11:15 AM Stephen Murray,
Boston University
The Implementation of
Music Education to
Elderly Residents of
Nursing Homes in Turkey:
A Preliminary Study
11:45 AM
Dilek Göktürk Cary &
Christopher Wiley
Carey, Karabük
University (Turkey)
A Two-Year Study On
Young Human’s
Interactivity With an iPad
App: The Carnival of the
Animals (COA)
Catherine Ming Tu,
Texas A&M UniversityKingsville
Young Children’s Home
Soundscape: A Day in the
Life of a Family
Barness Recital Hall
MUE 211
Bridging the Gap Between A Qualitative
Apprentice to Practitioner Investigation of SpeechLanguage Pathologists’
Susan Avery,
and Music Educators’
Ithaca College
Techniques
Secondary Band
Participation and
Executive Function
Dre Graham & Jennifer
Bugos, University of
South Florida
Eugenia Costa-Giomi &
Steve Kelly,
Xiaoning Sun,
Florida State University
University of Texas-Austin
Relationships of
Background Experience
and Music Teaching Style
with Conducting
Functions
Mara Culp,
Pennsylvania State
University
Alan Gumm, Central
Michigan University
Re-learning to Teach:
Inside One Veteran
Choral Director’s
Struggle to Shift Toward a
Constructivist View of
Learning
The Valley Handbell
Festival: A Community of
Lifelong Music
Engagement
Jonathan Busch,
Southfield Christian
School
Psychosocial Theory and
the Lifespan of a
Successful Music Teacher
MUE 205
Jail Guitar Doors: A Case
Study of Guitar
Instruction in Cook
County Jail
Chris Bulgren,
University of Michigan
Darrin Thornton,
Pennsylvania State
University
Stages: An Amateur
Musician’s Half-Century
Commitment to
Participation in a Chosen
Community Ensemble
Lisa Redpath,
Stonehill College
SMERS Schedule at a Glance
Conference Room
Friday, Feb. 6, 2015
Choral Room
12:15 PM
3:15 PM
They All Have a Part to
Play and it is Not Just
About Music: Policies,
Procedures and
"Community" in an
Intergenerational
Community Band
Panel Chair, Andrea
Halpern, An Overview of
Music Cognition in
Healthy Aging,
Bucknell University; Use Louise Billaud,
it or Lose it: The Benefit of New River Community
Musical Training on the
College
Aging Brain, Claude
Alain, The University of
Toronto; Piano Training
on Cognitive Performance
in Aging; Jennifer Bugos,
University of South
Florida
(Panel Continued)
2:30 PM
MUE 211
MUE 205
LUNCH
PANEL SESSION
Musical Engagement and
Healthy Aging
2:00 PM
Barness Recital Hall
Fluctuations of Social
Justice Beliefs During
Undergraduate Music
Educator Preparation
Into the Mystic: Lived
Experiences of World
Music
Pedagogy
Daniel Hellman,
Missouri State University
Katy Strand & Bridget
Rinehimer,
Indiana University
The Power of Early
Childhood Music
Education: An
Exploration of Musical
and Social Development
of Pre-school Children in
Wisconsin
Alena Holmes, University
of Wisconsin-Whitewater
A Beat in Their Feet and a
Rhythm to the Words:
Rhythmic Intervention for
At-Risk Elementary
Readers
Contextualizing the El
Sistema Movement Within
Music Education: Social
Justice in Relation to
Sociocultural Messages
Margaret Thiele, Dexter
Community Schools
Stephen Fairbanks,
Pennsylvania State
University
BREAK
Jazz Education Over
Time: An Examination of
Teacher Perspectives
Motor-Aural
Synchronization in
Adolescent Music Students
Daniel Healy,
Northwestern University
Corin Overland,
University of Miami
SMERS Schedule at a Glance
Conference Room
3:30 PM
Ensemble Participation
and Belongingness as
Components of Successful
Aging in Older Adults
Ann Harrington,
University of Kentucky
4:00 PM
Friday, Feb. 6, 2015
Choral Room
Barness Recital Hall
Redefining Music Literacy: Learning From Parents:
Common Core To Common What They Tell Us About
Score
Experiencing Music With
Their Children
Steve Oare, Elaine
Bernstorf, & Selim Giray, Gerald Knight,
Wichita State University
Elon University
My Own Perspective:
The Freedom of Musical
What Adult Music Students Expression for High School
Say About Their
String Orchestra
Experiences
MinJee Ha,
Pete Jutras,
University of South Florida
University of Georgia
Perceptions of
Educational Value in
Multi-Generational
Ensembles
Jillian Wilson,
Luther College
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University Musicians'
Experiences in an iPad
Ensemble
Jill Reese & Kristina
Verrico, The State
University of New York
at Fredonia
Bandura's Social
Learning Theory and
Modern Band
Bryan Powell,
Bergen Community
College
MUE 205
The Erosion of Arts
Courses in Elementary
Education Curricula at
the College Level: A
Preliminary Study
Louise Patrick, Florida
Gulf Coast University
The Effects of Mental
Imagery with Technical
Description on Musicians'
Perceptions of
Expressivity while
Listening to Original
Musical Performances
Jose Ruiz & Jeff Temple,
University of South
Florida
The Role of Participatory
Music Making and the
Quality of Life of Older
Adults
4:30 PM
Lisa Lehmberg,
University of
Massachusetts-Amherst
Filter, Mediator, Guide,
Companion, and Model:
Examining Parent Roles in
the Transmission of Music
Listenership Values and
Guidelines
Jillian Bracken,
University of Western
Ontario
A Web-Based Environment Karaoke Phenomenon: A
for Facilitating Reflective Contextual, Cultural
Self-Assessment of Choral Performance for Pleasure
Conducting Students
Sarah Van
Hyesoo Yoo,
Waardhuizen,
University of Florida
University of Iowa
Musical Journeys of PreService Elementary
School Teachers: Factors
From Their Lives That
Influence Readiness and
Confidence to Integrate
Music in the Elementary
Classroom
Alena Holmes & Sharri
VanAlstine, University of
Wisconsin-Whitewater
SMERS Schedule at a Glance
Conference Room
5:00 PM
Preparing Students for
Lifelong Musical
Engagement: Reexamining Private Piano
Lesson Approaches
Friday, Feb. 6, 2015
Choral Room
Barness Recital Hall
MUE 211
MUE 205
Circle Singing: New
Research on Participatory
Music Making
Curious Collaborative
Creativity: Transforming
Traditional Ensembles into
Innovative Communities
Lessons Learned from
Java Jam: An Alternative
Music Making Event at
the High School Level
Experience of Creating
Community: An Intrinsic
Case Study of Four
Midwestern Public School
Choral Teachers
Stephen Paparo,
University of
Anne-Marie Hildebrandt, Massachusetts-Amherst
Pennsylvania State
University
Caron Collins, The State Sara Gulish, Lower
University of New York at Moreland Township
Potsdam
School District
5:30 PM
Banquet
7:00 PM
Concert
Elizabeth Cassidy
Parker, Temple
University
SMERS Schedule at a Glance
Conference Room
8:30 AM
Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015
Choral Room
Barness Recital Hall
MUE 211
MUE 205
An Exploration of the Use
of and the Attitudes
Toward Technology in
First Year Elementary
Band Settings
Turning the Outside In:
Building Bridges Between
Popular Music and School
Music
Keynote Address
Please Be Patient, I’m a
Work In Progress
Don Coffman,
University of Miami
Lifelong Musicians and
Personality Type: The
Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator Instrument as a
9:30 AM Predictor of Long-Term
Involvement in Music
Lifespan Recollections in
the Autobiographies of
Music Education Graduate
Students
Lori Custodero,
Columbia University
Improvisation as a
Pedagogical System: An
Analysis of the
Methodology of the
Instituto de Educacion
Musicale
Daniel Welborn,
Georgia State University
Stephanie Khoury,
McGill University
Remembering a Hard Life
With Joy: Musicing
Among Korean Elders
AIRS Quadcultural Study
on Singing and Cultural
Understanding
Connecting Laboratory to
Classroom: Examining the
Pedagogical and
Philosophical
Elisha Jo & Kari Veblen, Relationships Between
University of Western
Music Cognition Research
Ontario
and Music Education
Practice Through a Review
10:00 AM
of Literature
Bettie Anne Younker,
Jillian Bracken, & Ruth
Wright, University of
Western Ontario; Katie
Overy, University of
Edinburgh
Lily Chen-Halftcheck,
University of CaliforniaLos Angeles
Danni Gilbert,
University of NebraskaLincoln
Teaching Students with
Disabilities: A Review of
Music Education Research
as it Relates to the
Individuals with
Disabilities Education Act
Sara Jones, University of
Massachusetts-Amherst
Chad West,
Ithaca College
The Relationship Between
Phonological Awareness
and Music Aptitude
Mara Culp,
Pennsylvania State
University
SMERS Schedule at a Glance
Conference Room
Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015
Choral Room
10:30 AM
MUE 211
MUE 205
BREAK
Age-Related Changes
Affecting the Learning of
Music Performance Skills
for Older Adults
11:00 AM
Barness Recital Hall
James Reifinger,
Southern Illinois
University
String Technique and
Pedagogy: Was Percival
Hodgson Correct?
Empirical Data in Support
of an Alternative Approach
to the Study of String
Instruments
David Sogin,
University of Kentucky
“I am a good singer!”:
Exploring the Lived
Experience of a 14-yearold Girl with Autism at an
Inclusive Summer Music
Camp
Becky Halliday,
University of Montevallo
Young Childrens'
Preferences for Musical
iPad Applications
Mapping Lived Space as
Musical Space: An
Exploration of Adult
Learners’ Spatial and
Suzanne Burton & Aimee Musical Identities
Pearsall, University of
Delaware
Kiera Galway,
University of Toronto
Outstanding Emerging Research Award Presentation and Recognition of Finalists
11:15 AM
Paper Presentation by Outstanding Emerging Researcher Award Recipient, Patrick K. Cooper, Athlos Traditional Academy, Arizona
Examining Correlations when Using Amabile’s Consensual Assessment Technique to Support Validity of Teachers as Expert Judges
Adult and Community Music Education Special Research Interest Group (SRIG) BUSINESS MEETING