For the last nineteen years, the KMEA In-Service Workshop has hosted a research poster session. This year the session featured twenty-four excellent papers. Attendance by conference participants was excellent, as always. Each presenter had an exhibition area where those in attendance had the opportunity to view the data and to discuss the individual research projects with the presenters. This presentation format has become the primary method of research dissemination among conferences at the national and international level because: a) it can accommodate numerous papers representing multiple areas of research at a single time; and b) it allows those in attendance to concentrate on areas of interest and to speak directly to the researcher.

The KMEA Research Poster Session featured faculty research in music education, student theses and dissertations in music education, exemplary class research papers, and research by public school educators. By establishing an ongoing network of music teachers and researchers who share mutual interests and concerns, we can carry out research that will help improve music teaching and learning in Kansas. For an abstract of the following papers presented at the KMEA In-Service Workshop research poster session, please contact the presenters at their respective university/schools or send me an email at the address shown at the top of this page.