College of Musical Arts

Chair of music education; teaches graduate and undergraduate courses for music education majors; received a bachelor’s in music education from Wheaton College, a master’s in performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a Ph.D. in music education from the University of Texas at Austin; a former public school string teacher and cello instructor, she has performed extensively in orchestral and chamber music settings; research addresses issues of systematic observation and evaluation of music teaching; has presented research at meetings of the Texas Music Educators Association, the Music Educators National Conference, the Fourth International Conference of Technological Directions in Music Education, the American Music Therapy Association, the Sixth International Research Symposium on Talent Education and the Association for Behavior Analysis; articles have been published in the Journal of Research in Music Education and the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education.