Date of Award
2024
Degree Name
Leadership Studies
College
College of Education and Professional Development
Type of Degree
Ed.D.
Document Type
Dissertation
First Advisor
Dr. Ron Childress, Committee Chairperson
Second Advisor
Dr. Bobbi Nicholson
Third Advisor
Dr. Yvonne Skoretz
Abstract
The purpose of this research was to gain the music educators’ perspectives on the implementation of the 2020 National Opportunity to Learn Standards in West Virginia’s public middle school general music programs. A qualitative phenomenological approach was utilized to gather music educators’ perceptions of whether music programs in West Virginia are providing curricula aligned with the National Opportunity to Learn Standards. Through a combination of convenience and snowball sampling, 20 West Virginia public middle school general music educators were identified, and one-on-one, semi-structured interviews were conducted. Findings indicate a majority of the music programs were somewhat aligned with the National Opportunity to Learn Standards, in part, because of the alignment with the West Virginia College and Career Readiness Standards for the Arts. Findings suggest music programs that did not align closely with the National Opportunity to Learn Standards were a result of insufficient funding and a lack of administrative support for the arts.
Subject(s)
Music -- Instruction and study -- Education (Middle School) -- West Virginia.
Middle school education -- West Virginia.
Education -- Administration.
Middle School administrators.
Finance -- Education.
West Virginia.
Recommended Citation
Browning, Taylor Brooke, "An assessment of the utilization of the national opportunity to learn standards in middle-level music education" (2024). Theses, Dissertations and Capstones. 1875.
https://mds.marshall.edu/etd/1875
