Wendy L Sims
Biographic Data
| ID | 5872172 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wendy L Sims |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wendy L |
| FAMILY NAME | Sims |
| SIGNATURE | SIMS W L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Perfect Harmony Health |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4984-4936 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Introduction to the 2024 Senior Researcher Award Acceptance Address
Relationships between music performance anxiety and impostor phenomenon responses of graduate music performance students
The purpose of this study was to explore potential relationships between music performance anxiety (MPA) and feelings associated with the impostor phenomenon (IP). Participants completed an online questionnaire comprising demographic questions and two instruments: the Kenny Music Performance Anxiety Inventory (KMPAI) and an adapted version of the Clance Impostor Phenomenon Scale (CIPS-P). Although MPA has been found to affect performers of many a…
Characteristics of the Titles of Articles Published in Three Prominent Music Education Research Journals
The title is an important component of the manuscript, as it must convey sufficient information about the project to attract potential readers to engage further with the study. Researchers have examined titles and titling conventions in various disciplines, but not yet in music education. The purpose of this study was to provide a descriptive content analysis of characteristics of the titles of articles published from 1991 through 2021 in three p…
Impostor Feelings of Music Education Graduate Students
Impostor phenomenon (IP) is the psychological construct used to describe potentially debilitating feelings of fraud and fear of being exposed as a phony in individuals who are actually high achieving and successful. The purpose of this study was to investigate the IP feelings of music education graduate students. A total of 130 master’s and doctoral students completed a survey that included the Clance IP Scale, the Graduate Music Student Scale, a…
Impostor Phenomenon Responses of Early Career Music Education Faculty
This study was designed to examine to the extent to which impostor feelings, symptomatic of the psychological condition impostor phenomenon (IP), would be evident in early career university-level music educators. Those experiencing IP are typically successful individuals yet with impostor feelings that may include debilitating psychological effects related to an irrational fear of failure and exposure as a “fraud.” Participants were post–doctoral…
Senior Researcher Award Acceptance Address: Developing Productive Researchers Through Mentoring, Rethinking Doctoral Dissertations, and Facilitating Positive Publishing Experiences
Analysis of Publication Decisions for Journal of Research in Music Education Manuscripts (2009–2014)
The primary purpose of this study was to investigate characteristics of manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Research in Music Education ( JRME) representing various research methodologies. A database was compiled comprising all manuscripts that received a publication decision from February 2009 through March 2014 ( N = 506). Only submissions that went through the complete review process ( n = 423) were analyzed and included quantitative, qual…
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The Effect of High Versus Low Teacher Affect and Passive Versus Active Student Activity During Music Listening on Preschool Children's Attention, Piece Preference, Time Spent Listening, and Piece Reco…
This study was designed to examine the effects of high versus low non-verbal teacher affect and active versus passive student activities during music listening on preschool children's attention, paired-comparison piece preference, time spent listening, and piece recognition. Three-through five-year-old subjects ( N = 94) participated in four small-group listening lessons and subsequent individual posttests. Through the use of a modified multiple …
Music Style Preferences of Different Age Listeners
We measured the music preference opinions of 2,262 listeners for examples of art musk, traditional jazz, and rock. Our subjects were enrolled in Grades 1 through college, and we also tested adults who were not college students. Participants ranged in age from 6 to 91 years. We found that music preference means for the different styles were comparatively similar across grade levels, and when style subtest scores were pooled to make a general index…
Effects of Instruction and Task Format on Preschool Children's Music Concept Discrimination
Two studies were completed to investigate young children's ability to identify single and combined musical elements in response to listening, movement, and singing activities. Study 1 was an examination of the effects of short-term instruction on preschool children's ability to apply decentration to musical tasks. Subjects ( N = 30) were divided into (a) an experimental group, which participated in four small-group instruction sessions designed t…
Verbal and Operant Responses of Young Children to Vocal versus Instrumental Song Performances
The purpose of this research was to investigate the effects of the presence or absence of lyrics in children s musical selections on two types of young children's responses to music. Of additional interest were differences in responses due to subjects' ages and genders. Two studies were designed to compare responses to recorded lullabies with the melodies performed either by a woman singing the lyrics or by a solo instrument. In Study 1, a pictog…
Relationship between Humor Perceived in Music and Preferences of Different-Age Listeners
The purpose of this study was to measure the relationship between humor perceived in music and the self reported music preference opinions of subjects representing four different age levels. We administered a listening test composed of humorous and nonhumorous song excerpts in three popular music styles to 445 subjects in Michigan, Missouri, and Pennsylvania. Male and female listeners in Grades 3, 7, and 11 as well as college undergraduates parti…
Impostor Feelings of Music Education Graduate Students
Impostor phenomenon (IP) is the psychological construct used to describe potentially debilitating feelings of fraud and fear of being exposed as a phony in individuals who are actually high achieving and successful. The purpose of this study was to investigate the IP feelings of music education graduate students. A total of 130 master’s and doctoral students completed a survey that included the Clance IP Scale, the Graduate Music Student Scale, a…
Impostor Phenomenon Responses of Early Career Music Education Faculty
This study was designed to examine to the extent to which impostor feelings, symptomatic of the psychological condition impostor phenomenon (IP), would be evident in early career university-level music educators. Those experiencing IP are typically successful individuals yet with impostor feelings that may include debilitating psychological effects related to an irrational fear of failure and exposure as a “fraud.” Participants were post–doctoral…
Effects of Free versus Directed Listening on Duration of Individual Music Listening by Prekindergarten Children
Preschool children's listening time responses to free versus directed listening activities were compared. For the free condition, children were instructed just to “listen as long as you would like.” The directed condition was a written task designed to focus attention on specific aspects of the music and give children something concrete to do while listening — again, for as long as the children chose to participate. Children listened individually…
Senior Researcher Award Acceptance Address: Developing Productive Researchers Through Mentoring, Rethinking Doctoral Dissertations, and Facilitating Positive Publishing Experiences
Analysis of Publication Decisions for Journal of Research in Music Education Manuscripts (2009–2014)
The primary purpose of this study was to investigate characteristics of manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Research in Music Education ( JRME) representing various research methodologies. A database was compiled comprising all manuscripts that received a publication decision from February 2009 through March 2014 ( N = 506). Only submissions that went through the complete review process ( n = 423) were analyzed and included quantitative, qual…
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Children's Ability to Demonstrate Music Concept Discriminations in Listening and Singing
This study examined the relationship of grade level to children s ability to make musical discriminations when elements are presented simultaneously. Children enrolled in first through fifth grade were subjects for this study (N = 669). A listening test designed to assess the subjects' ability to discriminate and label contrasting musical characteristics related to tempo and articulation within single- and double-discrimination contexts was admin…
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The Effect of High Versus Low Teacher Affect and Passive Versus Active Student Activity During Music Listening on Preschool Children's Attention, Piece Preference, Time Spent Listening, and Piece Reco…
This study was designed to examine the effects of high versus low non-verbal teacher affect and active versus passive student activities during music listening on preschool children's attention, paired-comparison piece preference, time spent listening, and piece recognition. Three-through five-year-old subjects ( N = 94) participated in four small-group listening lessons and subsequent individual posttests. Through the use of a modified multiple …
Effects of Instruction and Task Format on Preschool Children's Music Concept Discrimination
Two studies were completed to investigate young children's ability to identify single and combined musical elements in response to listening, movement, and singing activities. Study 1 was an examination of the effects of short-term instruction on preschool children's ability to apply decentration to musical tasks. Subjects ( N = 30) were divided into (a) an experimental group, which participated in four small-group instruction sessions designed t…
Relationship between Humor Perceived in Music and Preferences of Different-Age Listeners
The purpose of this study was to measure the relationship between humor perceived in music and the self reported music preference opinions of subjects representing four different age levels. We administered a listening test composed of humorous and nonhumorous song excerpts in three popular music styles to 445 subjects in Michigan, Missouri, and Pennsylvania. Male and female listeners in Grades 3, 7, and 11 as well as college undergraduates parti…
Children's Ability to Demonstrate Music Concept Discriminations in Listening and Singing
This study examined the relationship of grade level to children s ability to make musical discriminations when elements are presented simultaneously. Children enrolled in first through fifth grade were subjects for this study (N = 669). A listening test designed to assess the subjects' ability to discriminate and label contrasting musical characteristics related to tempo and articulation within single- and double-discrimination contexts was admin…
Music Style Preferences of Different Age Listeners
We measured the music preference opinions of 2,262 listeners for examples of art musk, traditional jazz, and rock. Our subjects were enrolled in Grades 1 through college, and we also tested adults who were not college students. Participants ranged in age from 6 to 91 years. We found that music preference means for the different styles were comparatively similar across grade levels, and when style subtest scores were pooled to make a general index…
Verbal and Operant Responses of Young Children to Vocal versus Instrumental Song Performances
The purpose of this research was to investigate the effects of the presence or absence of lyrics in children s musical selections on two types of young children's responses to music. Of additional interest were differences in responses due to subjects' ages and genders. Two studies were designed to compare responses to recorded lullabies with the melodies performed either by a woman singing the lyrics or by a solo instrument. In Study 1, a pictog…
Senior Researcher Award Introduction
Individual Differences in Music Listening Responses of Kindergarten Children
In this project, we examined a phenomenon observed in two previous studies: When children were given the opportunity to listen to four pieces of music for as long as they chose in individual listening sessions, large differences were apparent among different children s total listening times. However, individual children tended to be remarkably consistent within their own approach to listening to the pieces, listening to each of the four for very …
Effects of Free versus Directed Listening on Duration of Individual Music Listening by Prekindergarten Children
Preschool children's listening time responses to free versus directed listening activities were compared. For the free condition, children were instructed just to “listen as long as you would like.” The directed condition was a written task designed to focus attention on specific aspects of the music and give children something concrete to do while listening — again, for as long as the children chose to participate. Children listened individually…
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Psychology (48 works) · Diverse Music Education Insights (12 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Communication (8 works) · Neuroscience and Music Perception (8 works) · Active listening (7 works) · Audiology (7 works) · Communication (7 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)