The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of motivation on upper-grade elementary students’preferences for acoustic or tablet-based instruments. The effect of cultural familiarity on musical ...

Jerald Simon is a musician, composer and piano instructor. He also created the company Music Motivation to publish songs and music books to help kids learn to play the piano. He also recently released ...

A group of kindergarteners in Schuylkill Valley Elementary School in Pennsylvania are doing something interesting this year—they’re all learning how to play the violin. The hope is that the students ...

Music is a crucial component of Georgetown. But for students hoping to pick up an instrument, resources aren’t easily accessible.

Motivation of physical educators at work was investigated within the perspective of Rusbult and Farrell's (1983) Investment Model. This involved the development of theory-driven instrumentation to ...