Peter Miksza
Biographic Data
| ID | 5872164 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Miksza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Miksza |
| SIGNATURE | MIKSZA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Editor, Journal of Research in Music Education |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7365-9207 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 40 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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The effect of musical groove on drum set performance accuracy
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether groove could enhance motor control when playing multi-limb rhythmic patterns on the drum set. In a within-subjects experimental design, 20 collegiate music majors performed rhythms using the left hand/snare drum and right foot/bass drum on an electronic drum set in three conditions: Isochronous Mmetronome, High-groove, and Low-groove accompaniments—which were 16 beat excerpts of popular songs d…
Dynamic Attending in percussionists and wind players
Percussionists have been shown to have superior temporal perception, but the underlying mechanisms for this advantage deserve further investigation. Dynamic Attending Theory, which posits the way attention aligns with rhythmic temporal structure, may explain why percussionists exhibit superior temporal perception. Percussionists may entrain more strongly to periodic stimuli than other musicians, and possibly at multiple hierarchical levels as opp…
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The Effect of Aural and Visual Presentation Formats on Categorical and Dimensional Judgements of Emotion for Sung and Spoken Expressive Performances
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of visual information on the perception of emotion in three contexts: a short spoken phrase, an analogous short melody, and a longer melody with greater complexity of pitch and rhythm. Participants without substantial formal music training were assigned to either an audio-only, visual-only, or audiovisual presentation mode; all observed musicians and actors who sang melodies or spoke phrase…
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The well-being of music educators during the pandemic Spring of 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted many aspects of life, including the instructional practices of music educators. The purpose of this study was to examine music teachers’ well-being following the disruptions in schooling that resulted from the pandemic in the Spring of 2020. We also investigated how disruptions may have affected music teachers’ perceptions of their efficacy and the status of the profession. A questionnaire was completed by 2,023 mu…
A PRISMA review of research on music practice
We employed the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) method to systematically review research on music practice from 1928 until June 2020 and identified a total of 3,102 records using our inclusion criteria, of which a total of 296 were eventually selected for the final analysis. We tabulated percentages and frequencies of (a) publications in ten-year periods, (b) type of publications, (c) sampling by geogra…
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Using a microanalysis intervention to examine shifts in musicians’ self-regulated learning
The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of using a self-directed practice diary on conservatory pianists’ self-regulated learning tendencies. We sought to determine whether the implementation of a self-directed practice diary based on the three-phase model of self-regulated learning would lead students to gradually demonstrate more self-regulated learning tendencies across a semester of practicing, and if the type and quality of thei…
Wellness Among University-level Music Students
For many music students, the transition to university-level studies can be a time characterized by high levels of stress as they adjust to academic standards and the challenges of demanding performance assessments. Given this context, this study investigated the impact of stress on students’ well-being, specifically the facet of subjective vitality, defined in the literature as a feeling of energy and aliveness. Our focus was to explore whether c…
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Predicting Collegiate Wind Players’ Practice Efficiency, Flow, and Self-Efficacy for Self-Regulation
The purpose of this study was to determine whether students’ practice efficiency, flow during practicing, and self-efficacy for self-regulation varied as a function of their practice tendencies, their tendencies toward self-evaluation, their self-regulatory tendencies to be self-reflective when practicing, tendencies to exhibit grit in their learning, and their teachers’ methods of instruction in practicing. Participants were 52 studio lesson tea…
Relationships among Impulsiveness, Locus of Control, Sex, and Music Practice
This study is an investigation of relationships among impulsiveness, locus of control, sex, observed practice behaviors, practice effectiveness, and self-reported practice habits in a sample of 40 college brass players. Practice effectiveness was defined by the amount of change in pretest and posttest performance achievement scores over one 23-minute practice session. Each subject's practice session was analyzed for frequency of practice behavior…
A Longitudinal Study of Preservice Music Teacher Development
The purpose of this study was to investigate the development of preservice music teachers’ concerns using Fuller and Bown’s model. Participants were 8 instrumental teachers who participated in the previous Berg and Miksza (2010) study. Data sources included goals essays, journals, a midterm growth plan, and teaching observation reports with accompanying lesson plans that were collected over a 1.5-year period. The participants expressed less conce…
An Observational Study of Intermediate Band Students’ Self-Regulated Practice Behaviors
The purpose of this study was to investigate intermediate musicians’ self-regulated practice behaviors. Thirty sixth- through eighth-grade students were observed practicing band repertoire individually for 20 min. Practice sessions were coded according to practice frame frequency and duration, length of musical passage selected, most prominent musical objective, and practice behaviors. The 600 min of video were parsed into 234 practice frames for…
Self-Regulated Music Practice
The purpose of this study was to explore a microanalysis technique for measuring instrumentalists’ self-regulation tendencies during music practice. A secondary purpose was to investigate whether an intervention informed by the features of the microanalysis technique would increase the students’ self-regulated learning tendencies. Three undergraduate instrumental music education majors volunteered to participate in this study. This study was desi…
A Cross-Cultural Examination of University Students’ Motivation Toward Band and Academics in Singapore and the United States
The purpose of the study was to investigate how university band students’ (non–music majors) motivational goal orientations toward band and academics differ across participants from Singapore ( n = 200) and the United States ( n = 227) and examine how they relate to a suite of adaptive dispositions (i.e., flow, grit, and commitment) relevant for 21st-century learning. Data were gathered via a self-report questionnaire that measured achievement go…
Classroom Music Experiences of U.S. Elementary School Children
The primary purpose of this study was to describe the music experiences elementary school children in the United States receive in the academic classroom setting. The data were drawn from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study of the Kindergarten Class of 1998–1999 (ECLS-K), a nationally representative study that followed kindergarteners through to their eighth-grade school year with the last data collection wave in 2006–2007. The variables perta…
Relationships among Impulsiveness, Locus of Control, Sex, and Music Practice
This study is an investigation of relationships among impulsiveness, locus of control, sex, observed practice behaviors, practice effectiveness, and self-reported practice habits in a sample of 40 college brass players. Practice effectiveness was defined by the amount of change in pretest and posttest performance achievement scores over one 23-minute practice session. Each subject's practice session was analyzed for frequency of practice behavior…
Effective Practice
The primary goal of this study was to examine relationships among observed practice behaviors, self-reported practice habits, and performance achievement of high school wind players (N = 60). Participants practiced in three 25-minute sessions, rated their practice efficiency following each day, and completed a practice survey. Participants performed a researcher-composed étude six times across the duration of the study. Performances were rated us…
Surveying Colorado Band Directors’ Opinions of Skills and Characteristics Important to Successful Music Teaching
This study was designed to (a) gather band directors’ opinions of skills and characteristics important to teaching and (b) examine the relative effectiveness of electronic versus paper survey methods. Survey respondents ranked lists of music, teaching, and personal skills or characteristics in order of importance and answered open-ended items regarding advice for 1st-year teachers and the struggles and rewards of band directing. The final respons…
The Development of a Measure of Self-Regulated Practice Behavior for Beginning and Intermediate Instrumental Music Students
The purpose of this study was to develop and test the construct validity and reliability of a self-report measure of self-regulated practice behaviors for beginning and intermediate instrumentalists. A questionnaire was designed to assess the motive, method, behavior, time management, and social influences dimensions of the theoretical model of self-regulation proposed by McPherson and Zimmerman. The questionnaire’s construct validity was tested …
An Observational Study of Intermediate Band Students’ Self-Regulated Practice Behaviors
The purpose of this study was to investigate intermediate musicians’ self-regulated practice behaviors. Thirty sixth- through eighth-grade students were observed practicing band repertoire individually for 20 min. Practice sessions were coded according to practice frame frequency and duration, length of musical passage selected, most prominent musical objective, and practice behaviors. The 600 min of video were parsed into 234 practice frames for…
A Longitudinal Study of Preservice Music Teacher Development
The purpose of this study was to investigate the development of preservice music teachers’ concerns using Fuller and Bown’s model. Participants were 8 instrumental teachers who participated in the previous Berg and Miksza (2010) study. Data sources included goals essays, journals, a midterm growth plan, and teaching observation reports with accompanying lesson plans that were collected over a 1.5-year period. The participants expressed less conce…
Classroom Music Experiences of U.S. Elementary School Children
The primary purpose of this study was to describe the music experiences elementary school children in the United States receive in the academic classroom setting. The data were drawn from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study of the Kindergarten Class of 1998–1999 (ECLS-K), a nationally representative study that followed kindergarteners through to their eighth-grade school year with the last data collection wave in 2006–2007. The variables perta…
Predicting Collegiate Wind Players’ Practice Efficiency, Flow, and Self-Efficacy for Self-Regulation
The purpose of this study was to determine whether students’ practice efficiency, flow during practicing, and self-efficacy for self-regulation varied as a function of their practice tendencies, their tendencies toward self-evaluation, their self-regulatory tendencies to be self-reflective when practicing, tendencies to exhibit grit in their learning, and their teachers’ methods of instruction in practicing. Participants were 52 studio lesson tea…
A Cross-Cultural Examination of University Students’ Motivation Toward Band and Academics in Singapore and the United States
The purpose of the study was to investigate how university band students’ (non–music majors) motivational goal orientations toward band and academics differ across participants from Singapore ( n = 200) and the United States ( n = 227) and examine how they relate to a suite of adaptive dispositions (i.e., flow, grit, and commitment) relevant for 21st-century learning. Data were gathered via a self-report questionnaire that measured achievement go…
Self-Regulated Music Practice
The purpose of this study was to explore a microanalysis technique for measuring instrumentalists’ self-regulation tendencies during music practice. A secondary purpose was to investigate whether an intervention informed by the features of the microanalysis technique would increase the students’ self-regulated learning tendencies. Three undergraduate instrumental music education majors volunteered to participate in this study. This study was desi…
Verbalization and musical memory in string players
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of verbalization about a brief etude on collegiate string players’ short- and long-term recall of the etude in question. We examined competing hypotheses that suggest it is possible that verbalization (i.e., verbal analysis of musical features) (a) could aid in recall both by highlighting patterns and constraints that inform the music’s creation and by facilitating the creation of explicit perfo…
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Constructive Controversy in an Instrumental Methods Classroom
Mirroring the current polarized political climate in America and beyond, ideological debates in instrumental methods often occur absent attention to potential common ground. Using Hess and McAvoy’s (2014) pedagogical principles for engaging students in democratic educational practices as a conceptual framework, the purpose of this exploratory case study was to investigate preservice instrumental music teachers’ (N = 24) experiences during a semes…
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Using a microanalysis intervention to examine shifts in musicians’ self-regulated learning
The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of using a self-directed practice diary on conservatory pianists’ self-regulated learning tendencies. We sought to determine whether the implementation of a self-directed practice diary based on the three-phase model of self-regulated learning would lead students to gradually demonstrate more self-regulated learning tendencies across a semester of practicing, and if the type and quality of thei…
Wellness Among University-level Music Students
For many music students, the transition to university-level studies can be a time characterized by high levels of stress as they adjust to academic standards and the challenges of demanding performance assessments. Given this context, this study investigated the impact of stress on students’ well-being, specifically the facet of subjective vitality, defined in the literature as a feeling of energy and aliveness. Our focus was to explore whether c…
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The well-being of music educators during the pandemic Spring of 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted many aspects of life, including the instructional practices of music educators. The purpose of this study was to examine music teachers’ well-being following the disruptions in schooling that resulted from the pandemic in the Spring of 2020. We also investigated how disruptions may have affected music teachers’ perceptions of their efficacy and the status of the profession. A questionnaire was completed by 2,023 mu…
A PRISMA review of research on music practice
We employed the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) method to systematically review research on music practice from 1928 until June 2020 and identified a total of 3,102 records using our inclusion criteria, of which a total of 296 were eventually selected for the final analysis. We tabulated percentages and frequencies of (a) publications in ten-year periods, (b) type of publications, (c) sampling by geogra…
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