TY - BOOK TI - Inquiry in Music Education: concepts and methods for the beginning researcher SN - 0415896401 U1 - 780.71 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Routledge N1 - Introduction : learning about the book and getting involved -- The spiral and modes of inquiry : options, choices, and initial decisions -- Finding and mapping sources of information -- Reading and thinking in conceptual frames -- Toward a rationale and research plan : writing a contract with yourself -- Approaches in the philosophical mode of inquiry -- Historical inquiry : getting inside the process / Marie McCarthy -- Purposes and questions in qualitative research -- Selected procedures for gathering, analyzing, and reflecting on qualitative data -- Quantitative research in music education : letting numbers speak -- Understanding descriptive statistics / Debbie Rohwer -- Interpreting correlations / Debbie Rohwer -- Designing ex post facto and experimental studies / Debbie Rohwer -- Tools for data gathering : basics of content and construction -- "So what?" : interpreting and sharing your findings -- Recapitulation : placing your research experience in the bigger picture ER -