Attention Allocation in Teaching and Learning

Over years of lived experiences, expert music teachers’ expectations regarding the components of successful learning are shaped through the refinement of memories that connect perceptions and actions with probable outcomes. One of the primary contributors to success in structuring successful music experiences is the ability to effectively allocate attention and accurately perceive relevant visual and auditory cues that in turn guide momentary decision-making. What teachers hear, see, and feel over repeated experiences reinforces cognitive representations of successful learning, which in turn drive teachers’ moment-to-moment attentional foci.

Our group deploys systematic gaze analysis in natural settings to examine teachers' allocation of attention in instructional interactions.

CML LAB MEMBERS

Doctoral Students

• Suzanne Charney
• Laura Bock
• Margaret Brown

Lab Alumni (Current Positions)

• Lorelei Batisla-ong, PhD, Baldwin Wallace University
• Lani Hamilton, PhD, University of Missouri—Kansas City Conservatory
• Robin Heinsen, PhD, Miami University of Ohio
• Laura K. Hicken, PhD, Bowling Green (OH) State University
• Micah Killion, PhD, The University of Texas at Austin
• Travis Marcum, PhD, Austin Classical Guitar