| Table 38. | Among public elementary school music specialists who participated in professional development activities, percent and standard error reporting that participation in the activity improved their teaching to a moderate or great extent, by school characteristics: School year 2009–10 (Table 38—Continued) |
| School characteristic | Activities designed for music teachers | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applied study in performing music |
Applied study in improvising, arranging, or composing music |
Developing knowledge about music (e.g., historical, cultural, analytical) |
Connecting music learning with other subject areas | Research on arts and student learning (e.g., arts and cognition) |
Integrating educational technologies into music instruction | |||||||
| Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
Percent | Standard error |
|
| All public elementary school music specialists | 75 | (2.7) | 70 | (3.0) | 69 | (2.8) | 67 | (2.1) | 66 | (2.2) | 66 | (2.3) |
| Enrollment size | ||||||||||||
| Less than 300 | 67 | (6.3) | 69 | (7.5) | 69 | (5.6) | 71 | (4.5) | 62 | (5.7) | 56 | (5.5) |
| 300 to 499 | 77 | (4.4) | 67 | (5.6) | 68 | (4.3) | 70 | (3.2) | 68 | (3.8) | 70 | (3.7) |
| 500 or more | 77 | (3.3) | 73 | (3.8) | 69 | (4.0) | 61 | (3.3) | 67 | (3.8) | 67 | (2.6) |
| Community type | ||||||||||||
| City | 78 | (4.2) | 61 | (5.4) | 69 | (4.7) | 68 | (3.5) | 71 | (4.1) | 69 | (4.2) |
| Suburban | 76 | (4.1) | 80 | (4.0) | 68 | (5.0) | 64 | (4.4) | 64 | (5.3) | 67 | (3.7) |
| Town | 78 | (6.1) | 66 | (8.7) | 69 | (7.1) | 72 | (4.9) | 64 | (7.1) | 66 | (5.8) |
| Rural | 67 | (5.2) | 68 | (6.4) | 70 | (4.6) | 66 | (3.7) | 64 | (4.9) | 60 | (4.0) |
| Region | ||||||||||||
| Northeast | 73 | (4.9) | 74 | (5.4) | 60 | (7.0) | 58 | (5.3) | 62 | (6.0) | 69 | (4.1) |
| Southeast | 76 | (4.2) | 74 | (5.1) | 79 | (3.1) | 73 | (2.8) | 69 | (3.5) | 64 | (3.4) |
| Central | 73 | (5.4) | 63 | (6.6) | 62 | (4.7) | 66 | (3.9) | 62 | (5.3) | 64 | (4.6) |
| West | 76 | (4.8) | 69 | (6.2) | 76 | (4.7) | 69 | (3.7) | 71 | (4.3) | 67 | (4.2) |
| Percent combined enrollment of Black and other races/ethnicities1 |
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| Less than 6 percent | 72 | (6.6) | 69 | (9.1) | 70 | (6.0) | 71 | (4.6) | 68 | (5.7) | 67 | (5.3) |
| 6 to 20 percent | 69 | (4.5) | 64 | (6.8) | 65 | (5.9) | 62 | (5.4) | 59 | (5.5) | 58 | (4.5) |
| 21 to 49 percent | 77 | (4.8) | 73 | (6.2) | 69 | (5.3) | 67 | (3.7) | 66 | (3.8) | 72 | (3.7) |
| 50 percent or more | 78 | (4.0) | 73 | (4.6) | 71 | (4.0) | 67 | (2.9) | 70 | (3.8) | 68 | (3.6) |
| Percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch |
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| 0 to 25 percent | 74 | (5.4) | 71 | (5.8) | 71 | (4.5) | 65 | (4.4) | 67 | (4.4) | 66 | (4.2) |
| 26 to 50 percent | 74 | (4.1) | 69 | (6.5) | 60 | (4.6) | 61 | (4.0) | 63 | (5.4) | 67 | (5.0) |
| 51 to 75 percent | 74 | (4.1) | 66 | (5.8) | 68 | (4.6) | 71 | (4.0) | 66 | (4.4) | 61 | (4.7) |
| 76 percent or more | 77 | (5.0) | 73 | (6.2) | 77 | (3.9) | 72 | (4.4) | 69 | (4.7) | 71 | (4.4) |
| See notes at end of table. |
