Table 8.
Research methods used within settings.
| Performance | Improvisation | Composition | Recording studio practice | Total number of studies using each method | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Higher education | Observation (including video) | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Semi-structured interview | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||
| Journal and reflection | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| Questionnaire | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Focus Group | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Participant observation | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Computer code analysis | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Sub-Total | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 14 | |
| Professional development | Observation (including video) | 2 | 2 | |||
| Audio recording | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Semi-structured interview | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||
| Participant observation | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Sub-Total | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 | ||
| Professional practice | Observation (including video) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | |
| Audio recording | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Semi-structured interview | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||
| Questionnaire | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Participant observation | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Sub-Total | 6 | 7 | 3 | 16 | ||
| Community | Observation (including video) | 1 | 1 | |||
| Semi-structured interview | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Focus group | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Journal reflections | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Sub-Total | 1 | 4 | 5 | |||
| Total number of methods used in the 23 studies | 43* |
*
The total number of methods used is >23 because 16 studies used more than one method.